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 upper left corner of the map includes red lines as an indicator or railway lines, the solid red lines are for completed railroad lines, and the dashed red lines illustrate railway lines under construction. Blue lines are used to highlight steamship routes, and black lines indicate the roads. Green lines show the borders of the countries and towns. Mileage on the roads is highlighted at specific points on the map.
It was published in St. Petersburg, Russia, during the reign of Czar Nicholas II. You can see the start of the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow included on this map, and in an insert, it shows the railway from Chelyabinsk to Krasnoyarsk.
General Staff officers Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin and Vladimir Poltoratsky of Cartographic Establishment of A. Ilyin are listed as the publishers of this map. As these military officers had in-depth access to military archives, this map is considered to be one of the most precise records of transportation routes in Russia of that time period.
Both Persia and Warsaw are included on this map. This is because both places were part of the Russian Empire during the construction of this map.
Other inserts on the map include the Caspian Sea, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow region, and the city, Warsaw, Vladivostok, and St. Petersburgh districts.
The dimension of the map is 31.5 x 51.5 inches or 2.6 x 4.29 feet.
