The Ice Palace built in St. Petersburg in the cold winter of 1740 by Empress Anna Ivanovna. Two ice dolphins spewed flaming naphtha at night 2; and ice canons 3 and mortars 4 were fired. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children); Weimar; 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1;200 engraved plates on natural history; science; costume; mythology; etc.; published from 1790-1830.
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