<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<itemContainer xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/browse?collection=2&amp;output=omeka-xml&amp;page=2" accessDate="2026-05-02T00:07:05-04:00">
  <miscellaneousContainer>
    <pagination>
      <pageNumber>2</pageNumber>
      <perPage>10</perPage>
      <totalResults>80</totalResults>
    </pagination>
  </miscellaneousContainer>
  <item itemId="279" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="843">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3ae60503292d73aaf33ac67980b06b51.jpg</src>
        <authentication>a1e5e50e89759cbed1abe8b3bb6ebdf0</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2572">
              <text>Vaza</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2573">
              <text>Vaza</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2574">
              <text>16,053</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2575">
              <text>202,710</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2576">
              <text>Farming, Factories, Shipbuilding, Crafts</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2577">
              <text>Russians, Finns, Swedes</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2565">
                <text>Vaza</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2566">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2567">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2568">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2569">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2570">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2571">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="55">
        <name>Grand Duchy of Finland</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="278" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="709">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/9cd1f3e0dd00094cc4ad37daa8528c38.jpg</src>
        <authentication>5e25787bf35014f4ea48675715494ff1</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2559">
              <text>Uleaborg</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2560">
              <text>Uleaborg</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2561">
              <text>57,396</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2562">
              <text>125,114</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2563">
              <text>Farming, Forestry, Fishing, Crafts</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2564">
              <text>Russians, Finns, Swedes</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2552">
                <text>Uleaborg</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2553">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2554">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2555">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2556">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2557">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2558">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="55">
        <name>Grand Duchy of Finland</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="271" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="702">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/6d0fb4be728489afca998339493036c9.jpg</src>
        <authentication>3be51e76332a56ab042a4abab517ea07</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2468">
              <text>Tver</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2469">
              <text>Tver</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2470">
              <text>26,044</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2471">
              <text>1,327,700</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2472">
              <text>Forestry, Factories, Shipbuilding</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2473">
              <text>Russians, Karelians</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2461">
                <text>Tver</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2462">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2463">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2464">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2465">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2466">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2467">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="54">
        <name>Central Industrial region</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="263" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="694">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/e512694c615a24f6ed43cb27bf3450c8.jpg</src>
        <authentication>5feca27b10ec688fc35abe1727c6e504</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2364">
              <text>Tula</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2365">
              <text>Tula</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2366">
              <text>11,815</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2367">
              <text>1,227,000</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2368">
              <text>Farming, Cattle, Fishing, Pasture, Factories, Shipbuilding, Crafts</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2369">
              <text>Russians</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2357">
                <text>Tula</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2358">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2359">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2360">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2361">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2362">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2363">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="52">
        <name>Central Agricultural region</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="318" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="749">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/c70bde687b1f95420d150614258e6191.jpg</src>
        <authentication>5127cc195cf135bddb5fd61715d81127</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3075">
              <text>Tomsk</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3076">
              <text>Tomsk</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3077">
              <text>321,611</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3078">
              <text>564,602</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3079">
              <text>Farming, Forestry, Distillieries, Fishing, Factories</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3080">
              <text>Russians, Finns, Mongols, Tatars, Samoeds</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3068">
                <text>Tomsk</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3069">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3070">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3071">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3072">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3073">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3074">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="67">
        <name>Siberia</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="317" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="748">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/4f5b3e2f60f338eee481ac00a0233072.jpg</src>
        <authentication>4183b987749b9dce447a535b2b5492b2</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3062">
              <text>Tobolsk</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3063">
              <text>Tobolsk</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3064">
              <text>512,127</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3065">
              <text>839,354</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3066">
              <text>Farming, Cattle, Forestry, Fishing</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3067">
              <text>Tatars, Zyrians, Volugs, Ostiaks, Samoeds, Russians</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3055">
                <text>Tobolsk</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3056">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3057">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3058">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3059">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3060">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3061">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="67">
        <name>Siberia</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="258" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="689">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/567ed9b21404337816e80914fb4a4e08.jpg</src>
        <authentication>227f83ac3271c2bf61e8706d50ecd30a</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2300">
              <text>Tiflis</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2301">
              <text>Tbilisi</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2302">
              <text>2,846</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2303">
              <text>Farming, Cattle, Silk, Gardening, Tobacco, Crafts, Mineral Waters</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2304">
              <text>Tatars, Lezgins, Georgians</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2293">
                <text>Tiflis</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2294">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2295">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2296">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2297">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2298">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2299">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="51">
        <name>Caucasus</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="309" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="740">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/8237e8fc3c56f99a29e667210feef1aa.jpg</src>
        <authentication>60d7e4d1f66d5c9f5874e94b420f3313</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2962">
              <text>Tavrida</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2963">
              <text>Simferopol</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2964">
              <text>26,087</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2965">
              <text>572,200</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2966">
              <text>Farming, Cattle, Viticulture, Distilleries, Fishing, Gardening</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2967">
              <text>Russians, Jews, Armenians, Tatars, Bulgarians, Nogays</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2955">
                <text>Tavrida</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2956">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2957">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2958">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2959">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2960">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2961">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="64">
        <name>Novorossiia</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="277" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="708">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/619d022367bb5b43c7be3578f8041078.jpg</src>
        <authentication>c8bb8feb9904ca3c827e7434c14f524e</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2546">
              <text>Tavastgus</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2547">
              <text>Tavastgus</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2548">
              <text>7,153</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2549">
              <text>143,906</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2550">
              <text>Factories</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2551">
              <text>Russians, Finns, Swedes</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2539">
                <text>Tavastgus</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2540">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2541">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2542">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2543">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2544">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2545">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="55">
        <name>Grand Duchy of Finland</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="262" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="693">
        <src>https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/c3c5da8ac219d0e24d45ac28d054d596.jpg</src>
        <authentication>f2056fa9f2d1401226ecab61101f4a0b</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3">
                  <text>Geographic Card Set</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="43">
              <name>Identifier</name>
              <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3143">
                  <text>007</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8259">
                  <text>In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image"&gt;playing cards&lt;/a&gt;. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:&#13;
&lt;div&gt;&#13;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;
&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards&lt;/strong&gt;. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and&amp;nbsp;laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We think you should play with these cards.&lt;/strong&gt; We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't read Russian?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we have translated the content.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know where any of these places are?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we made maps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't know what questions to ask?&lt;/strong&gt; No problem, we took care of that, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Now stop making excuses. &lt;a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards"&gt;Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;project: a collaboration between the&amp;nbsp;Library of Congress and&amp;nbsp;the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.&lt;/em&gt;</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8260">
                  <text>Meeting of Frontiers</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="45">
              <name>Publisher</name>
              <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="8261">
                  <text>Library of Congress, Russian National Library</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="21">
      <name>GeoCard</name>
      <description/>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Province</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2351">
              <text>Tambov</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="83">
          <name>Capital</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2352">
              <text>Tambov</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="84">
          <name>Area (square miles)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2353">
              <text>25,595</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="85">
          <name>Population (total)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2354">
              <text>1,750,900</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="86">
          <name>Economic Activities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2355">
              <text>Farming, Cattle, Forestry, Pasture, Factories</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="87">
          <name>Resident Ethnicities</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="2356">
              <text>Russians, Tatars, Mordvinians</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2344">
                <text>Tambov</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2345">
                <text>Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2346">
                <text>&lt;a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="45">
            <name>Publisher</name>
            <description>An entity responsible for making the resource available</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2347">
                <text>Library of Congress; Russian National Library</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2348">
                <text>Russian</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2349">
                <text>Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="38">
            <name>Coverage</name>
            <description>The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="2350">
                <text>1856</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="52">
        <name>Central Agricultural region</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
</itemContainer>
