Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s 1824 painting of St. Petersburg’s Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s 1824 painting of St. Petersburg’s Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.

1824 Painting by Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev.
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St. Petersburg’s Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood. (Painting by Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev. Public Domain.)

This image appears in: Barabanova, Kseniya. “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia 2014, no. 7. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5387.

The flood of 7 November 1824 was the greatest flood in the history of St. Petersburg. Short-lived storm-surges are not unusual in St. Petersburg, which is located on the delta of the river Neva, but this one far exceeded the normal levels.

—Kseniya Barabanova

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