Browse Items (173 total)

This map shows the northeastern section of the Russian Empire in considerable detail, in great contrast with what was known (and yet unknown) about the northwest coast of North America. This map, based on the Second Kamchatka Expedition led by Vitus…

This map is important because it shows the connections between port cities on the Tauric Peninsula and their hinterlands. This map shows Sevsatopol in a larger context, which hints at the reasons for its strategic location as a naval port on the…

Industrial towns and intermodal transportation were intrinsically linked by waterways and railways which carried the disease and, subsequently, a fog of chaos and fear. We will start our historical voyage at the border of Persia and Russia and…