Admiralty from Neva

Category

Library Item

Item no

26742

Title

Admiralty from Neva

Description

This image is taken from Ethel Moir Diary Vol. 2. Page headed Pertograd March 1917

Artist / maker

Moir, Ethel

Date

1916

Size

16.6 x 12.6 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Admiralty building is the former headquarters of the Admiralty Board and the Imperial Russian Navy.
When WWI broke out in August 1914 it was decided to change the name of the Russian capital from the Germanic St. Petersburg to the more Russian equivalent, Petrograd. It again changed from 1924 - 1991 to Leningrad, and from 1991 to present back to St Petersburg.
The Neva River is the city's main river.

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