Graphic materials of history of the Chevalier Guard Regiment

Characteristics of graphic sources on the history of the Church of Zechariah and Elizabeth are given, a collection of graphic materials on the history of the Church of the Cavalry Regiment in St. Petersburg from the archives of the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps (MHMAEandSC) is described and attributed. The purpose of the research is to identify and study a complex of pictorial sources on the history of the chevalier guard church from the collection of the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps archive. The iconography of the Church of the Chevalier Guard Regiment has 40 items, 36 of which are graphic materials, and the rest is fragmentary photographs. Graphic materials on the history of the Church of Zechariah and Elizabeth of the Chevalier Guard Regiment in the amount of 32 units are kept in the archives of Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps. The methodological basis of the research is based on the principles of objectivity, historicism, systematic scientific analysis based on the scientific method of cognition, includes general historical research methods, the iconographic method is applied. The research is devoted to the description of the materials of the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps archive collection. Part of the collection of drawings and plans are pencil plans without attribution or dating, and some, copied and supplemented, refer to an earlier construction. Attribution of such graphic materials is rather difficult and is possible only with the involvement of the entire complex of graphic and written sources. The collection of graphic materials on the history of the Church of the Cavalry Regiment from the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps archive is unique. Thanks to the so-called “L. Benois collection”, which contains drawings of the regimental church for 1897–1898, we can reconstruct in detail the features of the internal and external interior.