The lid is decorated with a view of Falconet’s monument to Peter the Great, St Petersburg, the front side with a panorama of Archangelsk from the Dvina river and the base with a capriccio landscape. Curiously, the inscription on the lid identifies the location erroneously as Isaac’s Square rather than Senate Square. A snuffbox of similar size by Zalesov, also made in 1829, with views of the Winter Palace and the Old Stock Exchange, St Petersburg, is in the collection of the State Historical Museum, Moscow.

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