740623 View of Menshikov\'s Palace on Vasilievsky Island, 1717 (etching) by Zubov, Alexei Fyodorovich (1682/3-1751); 16.5x19.8 cm; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; (add.info.: The palace was founded in 1710 as a residence of Saint Petersburg Governor General Alexander Menshikov and built by Italian architects Giovanni Maria Fontana, and, later, German architect Gottfried Johann Sch瓣del. It was opened in 1711, but the construction continued until 1727 assisted by Domenico Trezzini, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Georg Johann Mattarnovy and Jean-Baptiste Le Blond.); Russian, out of copyright.