St. Petersburg, Giovanni Bianchi, c. 1870
La cathedrale de St. Isaac dalmate. Monferand arch.
A very rare, original photograph of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, taken by Ivan (Giovanni) Bianchi (1811-1893) from the porch of the Mariinsky Theater. A native of Switzerland, Bianchi came to Russia at the age of ten and received education at the Institute of Painting and Sculpture in Moscow..... More