I am very grateful to David Whitford, formerly a member of the congregation of the Anglican Church in St Petersburg, Russia. He has provided me with information from local research undertaken by staff from the Pushkin Apartment Museum. It concerns possibly John Peter Gaubert's engraving skills which are recorded on 44 images found on the Russian national records website at https://bit.ly/2JtOBaw. David advises that which of the Gauberts created the engravings is still unclear, as no first name is given for the work (& the person who created them would have studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg in the early/mid-1820s). Hopefully, the document in the Russian Historical Archive, that is being researched will give a bit more information/a name.

The ship 'Ann-Gales' set out from London in 1834 for St. Petersburg, but was shipwrecked on 21st October 1834 in the Texel, North Holland. All on board were rescued. Amongst the cargo were part of the steel sheets bearing the engravings with the plans and views of St Petersburg. These plates were either made by or produced for John Peter Gaubert. 

I was aware that John Peter Gaubert had been apprenticed as an engraver/silver engraver but presumed this concerned jewellery. John Peter GAUBERT, the son of George GAUBERT & Sarah HARRIS, was born on the 3rd March 1794. He was baptised on the 7th December 1794 at St Annes, Soho. In 1808 he was apprenticed to a goldsmith. JPG was also a founder member of The Baltic Exchange in London. John’s brother George Frederick Gaubert was recorded in 1839 as being a stationer and engraver of 119, Chancery Lane, London. He went on to become a significant watercolour artist (see http://www.gaubertgenealogy.freeola.org/PaintingsbyGeorgeFrederickGaubert.html) I have two of his paintings. He exhibited some 28 paintings at the Royal Academy and Suffolk Street between 1829 - 1861

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. The Manege (now it is the central exhibition hall) of the Horse Guards Regiment on the Senate Square.

Period of creation: 1834, Material, technique: paper, impression, size: 12,8х16,8, place of creation: Russia, Number in the State Tax Office: 8731281 Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4723, Inventory number: OI-6864

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

The building with columns, on the pediment of the scene of the ancient Roman way of life, on the roof on both sides of the entrance sculptural compositions. On the steps is a military man.
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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist) Petersburg. Winter Palace.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17 Place of creation: Russia Number in the State Tax Administration: 8731326 Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4506 Inventory number: OI-6714

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Anichkov Palace on Nevsky Prospekt.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,9x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8695344
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4721
Inventory number: OI-6858 Location State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
St. Petersburg. Spit of Vasilyevsky Island.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8695357
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4493
Inventory number: OI-6707

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gobert, John (Gaubert, John worked in St. Petersburg since 1832)
View of the granite embankment of the Big Neva overlooking the Birzha and the Church of St. Catherine the Martyr

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, engraving on steel
Size: sheet: 9.7cm x 13.3cm
Place of origin: Russia, St. Petersburg
Number in the State Tax Office: 8602471
GIC number (CP): GMZ PF KP 93515
Inventory number: ПДМП 4838-гр

Location - Federal state budgetary cultural institution "State Museum-Reserve" Peterhof "

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Peter the Great's House

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345633
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4495
Inventory number: OI-6711

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gobert John (Gaubert, John worked in St. Petersburg since 1832) -gravified
View of the observatory on Pulkovskaya Hill

Period of creation: 1838 - 1850
Material, technique: paper, engraving on steel
The size: the image: 6,3см х 9,4см; sheet: 7,5cm x 11,3cm; sheet mat: 9cm x 13.9cm
Place of origin: St. Petersburg, Military printing house
Number in the State Tax Office: 8602473
Number of GIC (КП): ГМЗ PF KP 93522
Inventory number: ПДМП 4845-гр

Location - Federal state budgetary cultural institution "State Museum-Reserve" Peterhof "

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345631
Number of GIC (КП): OGLMM КП-4490
Inventory number: OI-6704

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

 

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Gobert John (Gaubert, John worked in St. Petersburg since 1832) -gravified
View of the observatory on Pulkovskaya Hill

Period of creation: 1838 - 1850
Material, technique: paper, engraving on steel
The size: the image: 6,3см х 9,4см; sheet: 7,5cm x 11,3cm; sheet mat: 9cm x 13.9cm
Place of origin: St. Petersburg, Military printing house
Number in the State Tax Office: 8602473
Number of GIC (КП): ГМЗ PF KP 93522
Inventory number: ПДМП 4845-гр

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. The building of the Russian Academy on the 1st line of Vasilievsky Island.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8345634
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4496
Inventory number: OI-6708

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. The Lutheran Church of Peter and Paul.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 17x12, 7 sheet
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345641
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4373
Inventory number: OI-6696

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Church of St. Samson on the Vyborg side

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 17,7x12,7
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Commission: 8345650
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4376
Inventory number: OI-6692

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Mining Institute.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345638
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4510
Inventory number: OI-6717

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Lutheran Church of St. Anne

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8345637
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4491
Inventory number: OI-6710

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. The country palace in Strelna.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression (color)
Size: 12,6x16,8
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345649
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4757
Inventory number: OI-6944

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Part of the Grand Palace in Tsarskoe Selo. Cameron's gallery.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression (color)
Size: 12,6x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8345668
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4753
Inventory number: OI-6938

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Foundry and Arsenal.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8345669
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4511
Inventory number: OI-6719

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Village house on the Duder mountain near St. Petersburg.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,7x16,7
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345658
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-5093
Inventory number: OI-7001

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Roussel (Roussel) P. (Artist)
Petersburg. Embankment.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 16,7x12,7
Place of origin: -
Number in the State Tax Commission: 8345651
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-5089
Inventory number: OI-7003

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

On the waterfront people of different estates. On the river boats, in the distance the city.

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. The Yusupov Palace.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8345667
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4505
Inventory number: OI-6716

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gornostaev F. (Artist), Gaubert (Gobert)
Petersburg. Church in the English nabarezhnoy near the house Laval.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,6x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8345677
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4371
Inventory number: OI-6691

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Monplaisir Palace in Peterhof.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,7x16,7
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345679
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-5092
Inventory number: OI-7000

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

On the left is a wall of the house, a tree and a playground surrounded by a balustrade. A woman sits on a bench
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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver
Petersburg. Church of St. Catherine on Vasilevsky Island, 1st line, opposite the building of the Russian Academy.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 16.9 x 12.2level
Place of origin: -
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8345670
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-3999
Inventory number: OI-6757

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Small Konyushenny Bridge.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,6x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345672
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4756
Inventory number: OI-6940

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver
The palace on Elagin Island.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 8.5x13.8
Place of origin: -
Number in the State Tax Office: 8345671
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-1869
Inventory number: OI-5163

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

In the center there is a palace, in front of it there is a carriage and three figures. On the right is a tall tree.
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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Mariinsky Hospital on Liteiny Prospekt near Nevsky.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,7x16,8
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8302785
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4726
Inventory number: OI-6860

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

On the left side of the street, behind the iron fence is the hospital building, the church. On the street passers-by, crew.

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Department of destinies on the Neva.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,7x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302793
Number of GEC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4727
Inventory number: OI-6859

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

On the river bank the building of the department, on the street the crew, on the river of the boat with the rowers

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver
Petersburg. Imperial Public Library.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5х16,8
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302789
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4720
Inventory number: OI-6857

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

The library building behind the iron fence, in the foreground are three figures.

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Trinity Cathedral in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 17x12,5
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8302781
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4497
Inventory number: OI-6705

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Bank Bridge across the Catherine Canal.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302778
Number of GEC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4508
Inventory number: OI-6712

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Mariinsky Hospital on Liteiny Prospekt near Nevsky.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,7x16,8
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8302785
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4726
Inventory number: OI-6860

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region" On the left side of the street, behind the iron fence is the hospital building, the church. On the street passers-by, crew.

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. Trinity Cathedral in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 17x12,5
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8302781
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4497
Inventory number: OI-6705

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region

 

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Beine (Artist)
Petersburg. Department of Public Education and the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Chernyshevaya Square.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression (color)
Size: 12,7x16,9
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302796
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4750
Inventory number: OI-6943

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region

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Gaubert (Gobert)
Petersburg. Academy of Sciences and Kunstkamera.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,1х17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8302802
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4000
Inventory number: OI-6758

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

On the left bank of the Neva is a two-story building with columns, on the right is a building with a tower crowned with a spire. On the river there are sailboats

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver
Petersburg. The Narva Triumphal Gates.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302804
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4509
Inventory number: OI-6718

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region

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Gaubert (Gobert)
Petersburg. Transfiguration Cathedral. View from Liteiny Prospekt.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,2х16,8
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302803
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-3998
Inventory number: OI-6759

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. The Alexandrinsky Theater.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,8x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302809
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4724
Inventory number: OI-6861

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

On the square is a theater building with columns. Near the theater there are two crews.

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Chernetsov (Artist)
Petersburg. The garden of Princess Boehter in Pargolovo.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,5х16,9
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302810
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-3996
Inventory number: OI-6754

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

On the shore of a picturesque pond walking. Around the trees, in the distance are visible the city buildings.

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver
Petersburg.Sobor St. Peter and Paul in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 17x12.2
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302813
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4504
Inventory number: OI-6713

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver
Petersburg. Dacha P. V. Myatlev on the Peterhof road.

Period of creation: First half of the XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,8x17,2
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302822
Number of GEC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4722
Inventory number: OI-6863

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. The main admiralty.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,6x17,1
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8302815
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4725
Inventory number: OI-6862

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Gaubert (Gobert) engraver, Gornostaev F. (Artist)
Petersburg. The Moscow outpost.

Period of creation: XIX century
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,3x17
Place of creation: Russia
Number in the State Tax Office: 8302824
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-4492
Inventory number: OI-6706

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region

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Gaubert (engraver)
Construction of the ship "Poltava" at the shipyard at the Admiralty.

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: paper, impression
Size: 12,4х17 sheet
Place of origin: -
Number in the State Tax Administration: 8049220
Number of GIC (КП): ОГЛММ КП-3997
Inventory number: OI-6753

Location - State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Association of State Literary and Memorial Museums of the Penza Region"

Near the collected bottom of the ship are scattered logs, the people are crowded.

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Gobert John (Gaubert, John worked in St. Petersburg since 1832)
VIEW FOR THE BUILDING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MEETINGS. 1834

Period of creation: 1834
Material, technique: engraving on steel, paper, watercolor
The size: the image 9.6х12.8см; frame 17.1x22.3cm
Place of origin: -
Number in the State Tax Office: 5631545
GEC number (КП): 15573
Inventory number: ПДМП 275-гр

Location - Federal state budgetary cultural institution "State Museum-Reserve" Peterhof "