In addition to the legend items, the map shows the borders of the empire, borders of provinces, major bodies of water (seas, lakes, rivers), rail lines, provincial capitals, mountain ranges. Longitude calculated from both Pulkovo and Greenwich.
Creator:
Petr Nikolaevich Verekha (1838-1917)
Source:
Atlas of Forestry Statistics of European Russia. Created by P. Verekha and A. Matern. Engraving and printing by N. A. Glybov. Published by the Forestry Society. St. Petersburg, 1878.
Publisher:
Forestry Society
Date:
1878
Rights:
Public domain
Format:
55 x 72 cm
Language:
Russian
French
Coverage:
European Russia
Alternate names:
Распространение лесов
Legend Items:
[light green] = state forests [brown] = forests assigned to mining institutions [dark green] = crown forests [gray] = privately-owned forests [orange] = forests assigned to state peasants
Petr Nikolaevich Verekha (1838-1917), “Distribution of Forests,” Town Planning on an Imperial Scale, accessed May 3, 2024, https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/document/4636.
