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“Cholera epidemics regularly spread up the Volga from Astrakhan, most devastatingly in 1892 and 1893 when the disease ravaged the working population of the fair. “
Description of Cholera entering Niznhy Novgorod in 1892 from Melnikov Ocherki,…

The postal road map hints at population density, data not readily available from other types of sources. On top of density, it also captures the shape of population distribution within a given region (This claim is not based on any serious research;…

This map of European Russia was created by German geographer and cartographer Richard Andree (1835 - 1912). Interestingly, Andree was the son of another well-known and much respected 19th Century German geographer, Karl Andree (1808 - 1875). During…

"European Russia." This map is from the same plate as the 1914 English-language edition of Baedeker's Handbook for Travelers to Russia. Because we do not have to a high-resolution copy of that particular edition, we are using this 1910 map of the…

Semyon Aleksandrovich Mukhin's Military Topographical Map of Crimea, published by the Military-Topographical Depo of the General Staff of the Russian Army in 1817

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

Sheet from Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vilbrekht's 1792 Atlas of Russia in forty-four maps (published in St. Petersburg)