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In 1890, Jlyne created this visual representation of the production of precious metals across the landscape of the Russian Empire. The map is centered on the Siberian territory with a clear landscape view starting from Warsaw in the far west…

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…

Set thirty four years after Peter the Great's capture of the Swedish fortress and only twenty five years after becoming the capital of Imperial Russia, this 1737 map outlines the foundations of what will become the cosmopolitan jewel of what is the…

This map shows the spread of Cholera within European Russia. The main river systems are shown and labeled, and it is from this that we can see that the first incursion into European Russia happened in the lower stretches of the Don and Volga Rivers.…

French map of the area immediately surrounding the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1900. The author identifies the natural resource locations in comparison to the limited survey work done (e.g., hydrographic, topograhpic, geologic). In combination with the…

“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,…

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You know, I remember back when I barely thought about pandemics and epidemics or really any kind of -demics. But today, we are faced with it constantly. And understanding that these…

In this map we get a global view, as it was a pandemic that spread across all of the world. We see places where the spread was far more dense than other locations. For example we see that all of Europe had been affected at one point or another. We…