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Russian School, 19th Century

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Russian School, 19th Century
Design for a barge and barge house for Count Miloradovitch
indistinctly signed and dated '... 1819' (lower right), extensively inscribed and annotated with scale
pen and grey ink and watercolour, within the artist's pen and ink border
10 5/8 x 21 3/16 in. (27.2 x 53.7 cm.)

Specialist note

Count Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich was a Russian general during the Napoleonic Wars. Appointed military governor of St Petersburg in 1818, it is possible that this design for a barge and a barge house may have been intended for his palace there. However, any building plans would have been cut short when he was shot dead by Decembrists in 1825.