Virtual reconstruction of the Market street of 18th-century Königsberg’s Old town: sources, technologies, building history and models
... alongside photographs, literature and research works, local history evidence, individual housing plans, design details and other data. Restoring the volumetric and spatial composition and external appearance of the facades is complicated by the absence of historical sources dating back to the study period when the aesthetic of buildings was dominated by the style features of late Baroque, Rococo and early Classicism. Although the houses retained their Medieval layout, the appearance of the street-square changed. ...
Documents of personal origin of Russian jurors of the 1860s — 1890s as a historical source
The article studies the private documents of jurors of the Russian Empire such as diaries and memoirs and analyses them as a complex of historical sources containing unique information about the course of the trial and the work of the jury. The pool of documents included two diaries and eight memoirs. The author evaluated the authorship, purpose, place of creation of these documents as well as their ...