Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”

Alekseev, Fedor Yakovlevich | from Multimedia Library Collection:
Archival Gems
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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