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General Map of Livland Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the..., 1820. Creators: Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev, Iwanoff.

Légende

General Map of Livland Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the Distance in Versts between Them, 1820. This 1820 map of Livland 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,taverns, and customs houses. 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 German. The territory depicted on the map corresponds to the southern part of present-day Estonia and the northern part of present-day Latvia.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM24A00_061

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66,6Mo (4,0Mo) / 41,6cm x 40,1cm / 4917 x 4735 (300dpi)

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Germany Europe road roads building library job communication communications historical German map country pub occupation continent geography public house color military inn text location century Russia Russian profession cartography concept legend border lettering borders tavern Library of Congress russian federation Estonia Thoroughfare Colour Latvia postal service 19th century Northern Europe Customs House Cyrillic nineteenth century history historic 1820s cartographer map-making TGN map Mapmaking Russian Empire Livonia Estland Congressional Library Heritage Art mapmaker 19th-century Postal station Livland cartographic Meeting of Frontiers Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev V.P. Piadyshev Piadyshev Vasilii Petrovich Military Topographical Depot Iwanoff