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Mukhin, Semen Aleksandrovich. 1855. “To Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Allied Armies of France and England, This Military Topographical Map of the Krima Peninsula : Constructed and Founded on the Most Recent Astronomical…

Geographica Nova ex Oriente gratiosissima duabus tabulis specialissimis contenta quarum una Mare Caspivm altera Kamtzadaliam seu Terram Jedso curiose exhibet

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How can we connect the cholera epidemic of 1892 to Russian Jewish mass migration? It's more complicated than one might imagine. Come along for the journey as we deconstruct the stereotype of the disease-ridden Jewish immigrant.

The map shows the borders of the Pale of Settlement in the Russian empire from 1825-1917, as well as the main gateway of Jewish emigration from 1800-1914.

In Alexander Keith Johnson's map of Saint Petersburg, the perspective of the city takes an alternative view, with the city itself placed on the periphery as it shows its spacial location as compared to the great cities and nations of the Baltic

The principal street in the fair, Nijni-Novgorod, Russia