ABSTRACT
Russian translations of foreign works published byJan Tessing, Amsterdam. Tessing publishes first reasonably accurate map of Ukraine and the Black Sea area. Women appear publicly in Moscow for the first time at a dinner given by Peter for the representative of the Elector of Brandenburg. Introduction of the simplified 'civic alphabet'. Kopievskii's Russian calendar is published in Amsterdam. Building constructed on Red Square for the presentation of plays in Russian and German. Publication begins of Vedomosti (Gazette), the first official government newspaper. A. D. Menshikov and the military engineer Kirchenstein break the ground with a sword on an island in the Neva delta to mark the spot for the construction of a fortress called Sankt-Piter-Burkh (the site of the present Peter-Paul Fortress). Domenico Tressini builds the Fortress of St Peter and St Paul (completed 1744). Work begins on Tressini's Summer Palace on the Neva for Peter the Great (completed 1714), and Gottfried Schadel's Summer Palace on Vasilevskii Island for Menshikov (completed 1714) . I. N. Nikitin paints his Portrait of the EJnpress Elizabeth as a child. Work begins on Tressini's Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul (completed 1733). Work begins on Schadel's Palace at Oranienbaum for prince Menshikov (completed 1725) . Naval Academy pupils begin mapping the Russian Empire. Nikitin paints the portrait of Natalia Alexeevna (Peter the Great' s sister).
