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

This ethnographic map of European Russia depicts the makeup of the Russian Empire’s diverse population during the late 1800’s and how the various ethnic groups were geographically dispersed throughout the country. The map highlights the geographic…

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

“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,…