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1 of a series of maps made in ArcGIS by Hal Stuart. Link to the interactive map with all layers here: arcg.is/fHb8y . Intended as an updated version of Clemow’s Map of 1892 Russia. Made with data largely from Clemow’s own tables in The Cholera…

Sheet from the Russian Atlas: the first comprehensive and accurate atlas of the Russian Empire, published by the Academy of Sciences (under the direction of Joseph Delisle), 1745

f. 153., (seq. 189)

1906-1914

f. 145., (seq. 178)

Homann, Johann Baptist. “Topographische Vorstellung der neuen russischen Haupt-Residenz und See-Stadt St. Petersburg : samt ihrer zu erst aufgerichten Vestug welche von Ihro Czaar. Maj. Petro Alexiewitz aller Russen selbst Erhalter etc., etc., etc.,…

In this episode, I track the origins and routes of transmission of three devastating Russian epidemics: 1348 Black Plague, 1892 Cholera, and 1921 Malaria outbreaks. Why did these diseases follow the same routes and all have the same areas of origin?

f. 112., (seq. 136)