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 showing water routes of transportation such as navigable rivers and canals. Roads are indicated as mail routes, completing the view of transportation across Russia at the turn of the century.
No significant demographic, economic, or environmental information is present but what can be inferred by the presence or planning of rail lines. The borders of countries are shown, as well as borders between provinces. Distances are given in Versts, with a scale in the upper right offering that a Verst converts to 1067 meters.
