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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…

Map illustrating the Russian postal routes across its entire territory. Given the size of the Russian empire in 1842, this large-scale map is notable for its elaborate details on geography, distances, and villages.

This map was created in St. Petersburg on or about 1900 for a French audience, with a possible goal of showing the growing rail networks off to Western European audiences. It differentiates the rail lines by their dates of completion, as well as…

This image contains an epidemiological map depicting the spread of the 1892 Cholera Epidemic across Imperial Russia, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. The map is one of only a handful of Cholera maps to have been printed entirely in…

This is a map created by Captain Theodor Seuss Geisel of the U.S. Army Special Service Division for all personal in the Army Orientation Course to show the areas in the world that suffer from high levels of malaria. It depicts intensity levels from…

1894 Transportation map of Russia The map includes steamship and railway routes. It also highlights communication lines and roads in the Russian Empire in 1894. Focal points of the map are the Volga River and the numerous railways. The legend in the…

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…

Color map of Russia showing Capitals of Governments, Towns, Villages, Railroads, Telegraph Lines, Canals, Rivers, Wells