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привет! You are listening to MollyLab, from Longmont, Colorado.

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…

Map showing 1892 cholera distribution in cases per 100,000.

Floating hospital at Nizhny Novgorod, on the Volga, the cholera in Russia, engraving from The Illustrated London News, No 2787, September 17, 1892.

This 19th Century English map of European Russia is annotated to show the 1892 spread of cholera up the Volga River, spreading 12,000 miles in 12 days from Astrakhan to Saratof to Samara to Simbirsk to Nizhni-Novgorod. This map highlights just how…

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

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…

Caucasus Region circa early 20th centuryThe map selected is a 1918 British military map of the northern and southern Caucasus region. As a result, you will find that map contains names written in English script. Each province on the map is separated…

“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,…