Visit to the home of the rabbi of Chufut Kale. Favorite wife blushed agreeably at the entrance of the foreigners. Fascinated by the woman's elegant attire: Une robe de soie rayee dessinait une taille bien prise, que nul artifice etranger n'avait jamais deformees. Une large ceinture, apuyee sur les hanches, venait se reunir par devant, au moyen d'une riche agrafe composee de deuz plaques d'argent finement travaillees. Un mouchoir pose en turban sur de beaux cheveux tresses, un collier de pierres, d'or, une legere cravate de soie, un doliman de satin jaune brode de noir, completaient cette toilette pittoresque.(34)
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (drawing from nature; lithography)
Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838)
Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
Tatar Peasant Houses (Maison de Paysans Tatars)
Tatar peasant homes were often built into the sides of hills. Here a man and a small boy stand on a terrace looking into the distance. Demidov trains his Orientalizing gaze on the interior and exterior of the "typical" Tatar home, describing the scent of aromatic herbs, the comforts of the divan, and the significance of the terrace, where the family would spend countless hours grinding flour, drying everything from fruit to laundry, and passing news through the open air. "The terrace is, in a word, the observatory - the watch tower of the family." From here one listens to the call of the ombashchi. This elevated ground is the Tatar's public - and at times even a political - space. (42)
Departament selʹskago khoziaistva Ministerstva gosudarstvennykh imushchestv (Department of Agriculture within the Ministry of State Properties)
[Short title: Agricultural Atlas of European Russia] Khoziaistvenno-statisticheskii atlas Evropeiskoi Rossii. Atlas économique et statistique de la Russie d’Europe. Izdan Departamentom selʹskago khoziaistva Ministerstva gosudarstvennykh imushchestv (Sankt Peterburg, 1857) Description: 1 atlas 10 col. maps. 45 x 38 cm. Language: Russian; French Notes: Scale: 1 inch to 200 verst. View the full atlas online via this HOLLIS Permalink.
Here is a typical 19th century thematic map. The symbolization scheme is complex, using color, line, and symbol to communicate three different observations: the level of development of the fruit industry, the distribution of fruit varieties, and the location of related educational institutions.
Department of Agriculture in the Ministry of Agriculture and State Properties
Карта Европейской России и Кавказскаго Грая с показанием на ней распространения промышленнаго плодоводства и плодовых пород was published in volume XXIIIa (1898) of the Brokhauz-Efron Encyclopedia.
Atlas-bathymetry-slope mashup, variation 1
Map of the Black Sea known in ancient times as the Euxine Sea
Russischer Atlas: Welcher in einer General-Charte und neunzehen Special-Charten das gesamte Russische Reich und dessen angraentzende Laender
Compiled under the direction of Joseph Nicolas de L'Isle; published by the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg in 1745. View the digitized atlas via the Harvard Library Mirador viewer HOLLIS permalink The atlas is also available as part of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. That collection comes equipped with often spectacular metadata - such is the case with this atlas. The Rumsey "Notes" run as follows: "The first atlas of Russia, published by the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, expanding on the cartographic work done previously by Ivan K. Kirilov. Postnikov: "It brings together all the geographical discoveries of the early 18th century to give a fuller picture of the entire Empire than shown in the so-called Kirilov atlas. The maps were mostly based on instrumental surveys, geographical descriptions and maps compiled by the Petrine geologists and their successors." Normally the atlas includes 20 maps... Maps have titles in German, Latin; place names in Russian and Latin alphabet. Text of cartouches in Latin. Also issued in French and in Russian with title Atlas Russicus and Atlas Rossiiskoi. Atlas contains, 7 p. text with descriptions of the maps, and explanation of geographical names and symbols used in German, Russian, French and Latin, a general map of the Russian empire, 13 maps of European Russia at a uniform scale of 1:1,470,000 (35 versts to one inch); and 6 maps of Siberia at a uniform scale of 1:3,444,000 (82 versts to one inch). [...] Maps are colored in outline, with some maps in full color. Bound in reddish brown contemporary Russian binding in full calf with simple tooling. Atlas was printed in September 1745 in St. Petersburg in Russian, Latin, French and German, with engravers listed as Ellinger, Unversagt, Zubov and Rostovtsev."
Entworffen bey der Kayserl. Academie der Wissenschaffen [Imperial Academy of Sciences]