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Title:: A chapter on Russian history: The Centre de documentation sur la forteresse received a Russian researcher in the frame of the LSE Paulsen Fellowship

23 04 ‘ 2019 museomag Daria Shemelina RESEARCH science, the sticker suggests that even more of Lorents- sen’s work figured among them, too. The Land Noble Cadet Corps Library has been thought to be one of the few educational libraries from the 18th-19th centuries preserved almost entirely until today, now as a part of the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg. However, as we can see, at least one item happened to end up well outside of it. On the flyleaf of Lorentssen’s book, another stick- er reads, from Cyrillic: “Library of the Nikolayevskaya Academy of the General Staff…”. The Nikolayevskaya Academy was an elite higher military education institu- tion in the Russian Empire that was established in 1832 in St. Petersburg and renamed in memory of Emper- or Nicholas I in 1855. In the 1920s, the Academy went through a series of tribulations. The redistribution of its property at the time may partly explain why the book has surfaced outside of Russia. “WINNING FORTRESS…” An exciting moment of my study was the discovery of possessory notes that Russian nobles made in two printed treatises. One of such notes is contained in Ludwig Andreas Herlin’s book Herrn George Rimplers… Sämtliche Schrifften Von der Fortification (Dresden/ Leipzig, 1724). The first note in German on the flyleaf appeared to be illegible, which seems to be the rea- son why the author’s name had remained unknown. My colleagues and I nevertheless managed to decrypt it: “Gekaufft zu St.P.Burg aus dem Buchladen Math. Niceph. den 23ten febr. 1779. Preis (?) 1.Rubel / W (B?) Adoduroff”. Vasiliy Adoduroff, an outstanding Russian mathematician, philologist, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and curator of the Moscow University made the note! Adoduroff was also a brilliant translator of German, who even taught Russian to Princess Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst, future Empress Catherine II. The Austrian military engineer Ernst Friedrich von Borgsdorf wrote some of his renowned treatises, such as Winning Fortress, in Russia, where he had arrived in 1696 at the request of Emperor Peter the Great. While serving in the Imperial army, Borgsdorf participated in the strengthening of Kiev and the construction of the Taganrog fortress. In the copy of his treatise in the Jordan Fund, a possessory note in Russian reveals yet another owner. Presumably, Yevgraf Nedobrovo, the commander of the Orskaya fortress, located in the Ural Region, from 1848-53, made it. I am sure that further research on the rich and diverse Jordan Fund will spark many scientific surprises among the myriad of interesting discoveries. I do hope to con- tinue the collaboration with the CDF/M3E and its staff whom I sincerely thank for their support. Daria Shemelina – PhD in History of Architecture Senior Research Fellow of the Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning (NIITIAG), Novosibirsk/Moscow, Russia.

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