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A map of the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Moscow to Vladivostok

This ethnographic map of European Russia depicts the makeup of the Russian Empire’s diverse population during the late 1800’s and how the various ethnic groups were geographically dispersed throughout the country. The map highlights the geographic…

Issued by the Ministry of Transport in 1902, the Map of the rail, water and road routes of transport of European Russia, shows the massive growth in the rail network in the short time after the introduction of the locomotive to the Russian Empire.…

This 19th Century English map of European Russia is annotated to show the 1892 spread of cholera up the Volga River, spreading 12,000 miles in 12 days from Astrakhan to Saratof to Samara to Simbirsk to Nizhni-Novgorod. This map highlights just how…

This is a map of the Trans-Siberian Railroad published in January 1914 by Edward Stanford in London. I am writing about the Trans-Siberian Railroad in Russia, and how it contributed to the spread of cholera during the epidemic of 1892. The…

In this map we get a global view, as it was a pandemic that spread across all of the world. We see places where the spread was far more dense than other locations. For example we see that all of Europe had been affected at one point or another. We…

Ethnographic Map of Imperial Russia in 1905 This map was created by the Imperial Geographic Society of Russia, and it displays the location of the various ethnic groups within the late Imperial Russia.The map shows only 60 of the 196 known ethnic…

This is a map that was produced in 1893 by C. de Casrelli in St. Petersburg depicting with red arrows the progression of the Cholera epidemic that devastated Russia in 1892. It claimed 200,000 lives and was part of a global pandemic (the 7th cholera…