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Title A name given to the resource Irregular Regions Description An account of the resource Imperial officials who daydreamed about looking out the frosty windows of the Winter Palace onto a relentlessly well-organized and highly standarized state were in for disappointment. Wedged in at the margins of the more-or-less regularized provinces of the empire were a handful of regions with what might be described as temporary, underdeveloped, or relatively autonomous administrative structures. These included the territory of the Don Cossack Host, the former kingdom of Georgia, the territory of the Caucasian mountaineers, the lands claimed by the Russian American Company on the North American continent (with the Aleutian Islands), Chukotka, the okrugs of Kamchatka and Okhotsk, and two chunks of land in remote northern Finland. 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Title A name given to the resource (Semi-)Autonomous Regions Subject The topic of the resource administrative geography Description An account of the resource The Piadyshev Atlas describes two semi-autonomous, or primary, administrative regions (the atlas does not include mention of namestnichestva or governor-generalships): <ol> <li>the Grand Duchy of Finland (acquired in 1809);</li> <li>the Kingdom of Poland (reconstituted from the lands acquired by Russia via the partitioning of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under Catherine II). </li> </ol> https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/9ec39aa268e42e797cdb3e8213dd3f37.png 60131922f7d608086e91cd45a29edd20 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/38a785f81f89d790ebd8f4f7dd2c9bfc.png 498569136da2b7bf5fa1eda9850c7417 Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Administrative Divisions Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context admin-divisions Atlas Element Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Provinces (Gubernii) Description An account of the resource Provinces were the building blocks of the imperial administrative structure. Starting in the 18th century, provinces came in two forms: the guberniia and the oblast'. Empress Catherine II determined the shape and structure of the former, dominant form, with her 1775 Statute on Guberniia Administration (<a href="http://www.nlr.ru/e-res/law_r/search.php" target="_blank">law number 14392</a>). 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Title A name given to the resource Administrative Divisions Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context admin-divisions Atlas Element Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Districts Subject The topic of the resource administrative geography Description An account of the resource The districts were tertiary administrative units. Each was nested within a secondary unit (guberniia, oblast', or irregular division). 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Administrative division maps https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/905de6f1dc4a028800c8dc8f60f07152.png a02186ebe4f2ad1ff749cbfea926c425 Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Settlements Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context settlements Description An account of the resource <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/exhibits/show/2_profile" target="_self">[Back to The Spatial Profile]</a> Atlas Element Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Provincial towns Subject The topic of the resource urban space, administrative space Description An account of the resource The provincial town (губернский город) was the administrative capital of the province, the seat of the civil governor, and in some cases a military governor or governor-general. Provincial towns ranged from the relatively humble (Vologda) to the grandiose (St. Petersburg). Some boasted long urban histories, such as Moscow or Kiev, while others were essentially conjured out of thin air by imperial decree, such as Kherson and Simferopol. A few qualified as economic centers or trading hubs (think Riga or Novgorod); a handful were cultural centers (think Vilno or Tiflis). Others were frontier towns first and foremost, such as Ufa and Tobol'sk. <h3>Provincial Towns (alphabetically, by province)</h3> <table width="700" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><colgroup><col span="2" width="300" /> </colgroup> <tbody> <tr> <td class="xl60" width="300" height="17">Provincial town</td> <td class="xl60" width="300">Province</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Arkhangel'sk (Архангельск)</td> <td>Arkhangel'skaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Astrakhan (Астрахань)</td> <td>Astrakhanskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Belostok (Белосток)</td> <td>Belostokskaia oblast'</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Kishinev (Кишинев)</td> <td>Bessarabskaia oblast'</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Chernigov (Чернигов)</td> <td>Chernigovskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Novocherkask (Новочеркаск)</td> <td>Don Cossack Host</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Ekaterinoslav (Екатеринослав)</td> <td>Ekaterinoslavskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Krasnoiarsk (Красноярск)</td> <td>Eniseiskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Revel' (Ревель)</td> <td>Estliandskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Grodno (Гродно)</td> <td>Grodnenskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Iakutsk (Якутск)</td> <td>Iakutskaia oblast'</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Iaroslavl' (Ярославль)</td> <td>Iaroslavskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Irkutsk (Иркутск)</td> <td>Irkutskaia oblast'</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Kaluga (Калуга)</td> <td>Kaluzhskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Petropavlovskoi Port (Петропавловской Порт)</td> <td>Kamchatka</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Stavropol' (Ставрополь)</td> <td>Kavkazskaia oblast'</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Kazan' (Казань)</td> <td>Kazanskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Khar'khov (Харьхов)</td> <td>Khar'kovskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Kherson (Херсон)</td> <td>Khersonskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Kiev (Киев)</td> <td>Kievskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Kostroma (Кострома)</td> <td>Kostromskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Mitau (Митау)</td> <td>Kurliandskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Kursk (Курск)</td> <td>Kurskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Riga (Рига)</td> <td>Lifliandskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Minsk (Минск)</td> <td>Minskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Mogilev (Могилев)</td> <td>Mogilevskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Moskva (Москва)</td> <td>Moskovskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Nizhnii Novgorod (Нижний Новгород)</td> <td>Nizhegorodskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Novgorod (Новгород)</td> <td>Novgorodskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Okhotsk (Охотск)</td> <td>Okhotskoi okrug</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Petrozavodsk (Петрозаводск)</td> <td>Olonetskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Omsk (Омск)</td> <td>Omskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Ufa (Уфа)</td> <td>Orenburgskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Orel (Орел)</td> <td>Orlovskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Penza (Пенза)</td> <td>Penzenskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Perm' (Пермь)</td> <td>Permskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Kamenets (Каменец)</td> <td>Podol'skaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Poltava (Полтава)</td> <td>Poltavskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Pskov (Псков)</td> <td>Pskovskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Riazan' (Рязань)</td> <td>Riazanskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Sankt Peterburg (Санкт Петербург)</td> <td>Sanktpeterburgskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Saratov (Саратов)</td> <td>Saratovskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Simbirsk (Симбирск)</td> <td>Simbirskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Smolensk (Смоленск)</td> <td>Smolenskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Tambov (Тамбов)</td> <td>Tambovskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Simferopol' (Симферополь)</td> <td>Tavricheskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Tobol'sk (Тобольск)</td> <td>Tobol'skaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Tomsk (Томск)</td> <td>Tomskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Tula (Тула)</td> <td>Tul'skaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Tver' (Тверь)</td> <td>Tverskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Viatka (Вятка)</td> <td>Viatskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Vil'no (Вильно)</td> <td>Vilenskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Vitebsk (Витебск)</td> <td>Vitebskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Vladimir (Владимир)</td> <td>Vladimirskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Vologda (Вологда)</td> <td>Vologodskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Zhitomir (Житомир)</td> <td>Volynskaia guberniia</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="17">Voronezh' (Воронежь)</td> <td>Voronezhskaia guberniia</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/items/show/321" target="_self">Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire</a>, 1820-1827 [Piadyshev Atlas] https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/33f942f5472837618d5f756d62d20342.png abd50a79f8263f4a6278167081bdb271 Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Settlements Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context settlements Description An account of the resource <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/exhibits/show/2_profile" target="_self">[Back to The Spatial Profile]</a> Atlas Element Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource District towns Subject The topic of the resource urban space administrative space Description An account of the resource The Piadyshev Atlas contains attestations of 459 district (uezd) towns. This is a bit odd, given the fact that the atlas describes 591 districts. How might we make up - or at least explain the shortfall? To start, the 43 districts in the Grand Duchy of Finland, the 8 voevodstvos in the Kingdom of Poland, the 24 domains (владения) and districts (округа) of the (former) Kingdom of Georgia, and the 7 nachal'stva of the Don Cossack territory lacked district seats per se, as these regions had different administrative structures than the rest of the empire. That brings the target number down to 509, from 592. GIS software makes it incredibly easy to count the number of districts with at least one location designated as a district town: 444. In other words, the dataset is missing 66 district towns? Happily, that is not the case. You see, in most cases, a district that was home to a provincial seat (gubernskij gorod) did not have a separate district town. That means that we can add our provincial towns to the count. 55 districts were home to provincial towns (excluding Okhotsk and Kamchatka, which were not organized as regular provinces), but in 5 cases the atlas shows the presence of both a provincial and a district town. Eliminating those redundancies, and treating provincial towns as district towns, we can now cover 494 districts. What about the remaining 15? Careful scrutiny reveals that according to the atlas, precisely 15 districts lacked district towns altogether (3 in Iakutsk, 1 in Tavrida, 1 in Kavkazskaia oblast', 3 in Kharkov, 4 in Minsk, 3 in Vilensk). The math is a dizzying and the explanations myriad, but the result is that the dataset in fact contains what it ought to, given the parameters of the source from which it is drawn. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/items/show/321" target="_self">Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire</a>, 1820-1827 [Piadyshev Atlas] https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/1e2be60ff01ad3c6f55e7a423a9b5c2a.png 67521121d7388dd7fb4b90ff5b2a65b3 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/457715888ecf2258fc22756e65da6acd.png d366867d8ced075c1f273f06fb7159eb Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Administrative Divisions Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context admin-divisions Atlas Element Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Provinces (Oblasti) Subject The topic of the resource administrative space Description An account of the resource Provinces came in two forms. While the guberniia was the more standardized and more prolific form, the oblast' played an important role in the administrative geography of the empire as well. The oblast' was a secondary administrative unit. A quick glance at the map reveals that one of the hallmarks of the oblast' was location. If gubernii constituted the "core", the oblast' helped define the periphery of state administration. From west to east, the 5 oblasts are: Belostok, Bessarabia, Kavkaz (Caucasus), Irkustk, Iakutsk. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/items/show/321" target="_self">Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire</a>, 1820-1827 [Piadyshev Atlas] https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/0066000ee78bd1a4f3b35ce0f3b8ac01.png b72355c5bc8c78433feb1d2443b25941 Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Settlements Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context settlements Description An account of the resource <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/exhibits/show/2_profile" target="_self">[Back to The Spatial Profile]</a> Atlas Element Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Large towns Description An account of the resource Large towns (большие города) are found only in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland. Subject The topic of the resource urban space Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/items/show/321" target="_self">Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire</a>, 1820-1827 [Piadyshev Atlas] https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/4cbd60e66657f4fac62f6be8797f35a4.png bf6aea5de89379bc1f68d4b2fb95348a Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Settlements Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context settlements Description An account of the resource <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/exhibits/show/2_profile" target="_self">[Back to The Spatial Profile]</a> Atlas Element Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Mid-size towns Subject The topic of the resource urban space Description An account of the resource Mid-size towns are found only in the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Finland. They are rough equivalents of the uezd towns. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/items/show/321" target="_self">Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire</a>, 1820-1827 [Piadyshev Atlas]