St Petersburg Zoo
Original vintage advertising poster for the St Petersburg Zoological Gardens announcing its programme of celebrations for the quarter centenary year anniversary of St Petersburg on Sunday 27 April 1903. Great image featuring the 1782 Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great, a battleship in full sail engulfed in smoke and surrounded by smaller rowing boats and a man blowing his whistle, leading a performing bear and various historic and fairy tale characters (wizard, Cossack, soldier etc.) above the stylised Art Nouveau text. The St Petersburg - or Leningrad - Zoo (Ленинградский зоопарк / Санкт-Петербургский зоопарк) is the oldest zoo in Russia, founded in 1865, located in the Alexander - or Aleksandrovsky - Park. The city was founded on 27 May 1703 (200 not 400 years) by the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great. Printed by the Imperial Theatre Printing House. Backed on Japan paper, light water stain on left margin, fold lines, repaired tears.
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