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General Map of Yaroslavl Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the..., 1822. Creators: Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev, Ieremin.

Légende

General Map of Yaroslavl Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the Distance in Versts between Them, 1822. This 1822 map of Yaroslavl Provinceis from a larger work,Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo(Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire. Compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Piadyshev, it reflects the detailed mapping carried out by Russian military cartographers in the first quarter of the 19th century. The map shows population centers (six gradations by size), postal stations, roads (four types), provincial and district borders,monasteries, and factories. Distances are shown in versts, a Russian measure, now no longer used, equal to 1.07 kilometers.Legends and place-names are in Russian and French.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM24A00_052

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64,6Mo (3,9Mo) / 41,0cm x 39,5cm / 4843 x 4663 (300dpi)

Mots clés

road roads building library communication communications historical religious map monastery monasteries country French France religion geography color factory factories province military text location century Russia Russian cartography atlas concept legend border provincial lettering borders Library of Congress Thoroughfare Colour postal service 19th century Cyrillic nineteenth century history historic 1820s map-making Rossiya TGN Yaroslavl Yaroslavskaya Oblast map Mapmaking Russian Empire Congressional Library Jaroslavl Heritage Art 19th-century Postal station cartographic Meeting of Frontiers Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev V.P. Piadyshev Piadyshev Vasilii Petrovich Military Topographical Depot Ieremin