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Electric telegraphy in Imperial Russia

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Palace Telegraph Station (1858), designed by Andrei Stackenschneider and located in Alexandria Park, Peterhof

Electric telegraphy in Imperial Russia was pioneered by Pavel Schilling, a Baltic German aristocrat who had developed the Schilling telegraph, the first electromagnetic telegraph that was of practical use. This work was taken up by Moritz von Jacobi who in 1842-5 installed an underground cable to provide a telegraph line between St Petersburg and the Imperial palace at Tsarskoye Selo.[1] Terminals were also installed in Oranienbaum and Kronstadt.

In 1853 the Russian government awarded a contract to Siemens & Halske to develop a telegraph system. Carl Heinrich von Siemens arrived in St Petersburg where he established the Russian branch of the company.[2]



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  1. ^ Balbi, Gabriele; Fickers, Andreas (8 June 2020). History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU): Transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-066970-1.
  2. ^ Coopersmith, Jonathan (1992). "Electrification, 1886–1914". The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926. Cornell University Press. pp. 42–98. ISBN 978-1-5017-0716-2. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctt1g69x9s.8.