The Globe Blau is a copper globe on a round wooden stand made in the early 1690s. the heirs of the famous Amsterdam cartographer Willem Blau for the Swedish king Karl XI . The height of the globe exceeds 2 meters.
After Karl XII refused to redeem the globe due to the cost of waging the Northern War , this rare item attracted the attention of a Russian agent in Amsterdam. In 1708 he began a correspondence with Peter I about the acquisition of the globe. During the lengthy negotiations, the initial price of the globe was managed to be brought down 10 times.
In 1710 the globe was purchased by the Russian Tsar, delivered to Russia and installed in the Lefortovo Palace . A year later, he was transported to the bell tower of Ivan the Great , where, together with the little boat of Peter I, he appeared before the eyes of the Moscow public. It was the first public museum in Moscow.
In 1733, the globe was moved to the Sukharev Tower , where it did not lose its educational function: according to it, geography was taught in the Navigation School . The chamber, attached to place the globe on the tower from the side of Sretenka , was named Globus.
In 1752, the globe was transported to the St. Petersburg Kunstkamera , apparently in order to serve as a model for the restoration of the Gottorp globe damaged by fire. The sleigh was designed by architect D. V. Ukhtomsky for its transportation.
During the 19th century, the Blau globe was an exhibit of the Rumyantsev Museum , located first in St. Petersburg and then in Moscow. In 1912, the administration of the Rumyantsev Museum transferred it to the Historical Museum , where it remains to this day.
See also
- Cosmography Blau
Literature
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| About the Globe of Blau and the secret map of Kutuzov | |
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- Big Globe Blau. Research and restoration. Materials of a scientific and practical seminar. Moscow, April 8, 2003 (Proceedings of the State History Museum. Vol. 146). - M .: GIM, 2006. - 72 p., Ill., Col. inset. - ISBN 5-89076-123-4
- Fomenko I.K. Globus Blau: Results and Perspectives of Study (Rus) // Questions of the History of Natural Science and Technology = Studies in the History of Science and Technology: A quarterly scientific journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - Moscow : Russian Academy of Sciences , 2004. - Vol. 25 , No. 1 . - ISSN 0205-9606 .
- Fomenko I. K. Blau handwritten globe (Rus.) // Monuments of science and technology in museums of Russia = Relics of science. Ed .:G. G. Grigoryan, L. M. Kozhina, V. P. Borisov. - Moscow : "Science" , Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography " , Polytechnical Museum , Russian Academy of Sciences , Institute of Natural Science and Technology. S.I. Vavilova , 2005. - Vol. 4 - ISBN 5-02-033524-X , BBK J.e (2) l61ya61.
- Fomenko I.K. Globe Travel to Muscovy . The Copper Globe of the Dutch firm heirs of the famous cartographer Willem Blau from the collection of the State History Museum . http://www.vokrugsveta.ru . Around the World (journal) (04/07/2009) . The appeal date is April 11, 2019. Archived July 13, 2018.
- Igor Fomenko. De manuscriptglobe van Blaeu-Vingboons in Moskou (nid.) // Caert Thresoor: Tijdschrift voor de geschiedenis van de kartografie in Nederland. - Utrecht , 2008. - Afl. 27 . - Nr. 4 - P. 89-96 . Archived August 10, 2016.