Souvenir de St. Petersbourg. Souvenir de St. Petersbourg. Moscou/Moscow, J. Daziaro, [1860-1865?], oblong 8vo (70 x 110mm), 24 albumen prints (each approximately 60 x 11mm.), mounted as cabinet cards in a concertina (leparello), original red tooled linen covers with gilt lettering "Souvenir de St. Petersbourg" in relief on front, "J. Daziaro, St Petersbourg Newsky, Moscou pont des Marecheaux" in black relief lettering on back, the photographs show street views of Saint Petersbourg (later also known as Leningrad), depicted are: Cathedrale St Isaac, N.D. de Kasan, monument of Peter the Great, Monument Nicolas I, Newsky Prospect (with pedestrians, cars and buses), Quai de L'Amiraute, Winterpalace/Hermitage, entrance to Hermitage, Fortress St Peter and Paul, The admiralty, Column of Alexander I, Monument Catharine II, Etat Major, Palace Anitschkoff, The Bourse, Pont Nicolas, Conseil de l'Empire, Panorama of the river, Senat et Synode, Anitschkoff bridge, Smolna concent, Chappel summergarden, Marie theatre, victory column. very good state of the binding and good state of the photographs. 24 photographs published by Joseph Daziaro/Giuseppe Kristofovich Daziaro (Pieve Tesino1805/6-St Petersburg 1865) was Russia's first private publisher of high-quality art printing products, merchant of the 2nd guild. Joseph Daziaro (1806-1865) came to the Russian Empire from Italy in the early 1820s. He opened a publishing business and specialized in the sale of lithograph prints. His firm can be called the first private publishing house of printed artistic graphics in Russia. By the beginning of the 1830s, he had 2 shops in Moscow. In 1849, he became the owner of a shop in St. Petersburg. Interesting and scarce collection of mid 19th century photographs from Russia. Scarce.