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As careful as we have been to trace and identify the administrative boundaries depicted on the atlas, at times it is difficult to do either with great confidence. A case in point is that of the oblast' of Bessarabia, in the southwest corner of the…
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 viewerHOLLIS permalink
The atlas is also available as part of the David…
The Piadyshev atlas attests to the presence of 576 post houses. In some cases the post house (почтовой двор) was freestanding; in others it was designated as a "post station with a post house". The main distinction between the features in this layer…
Cossack villages (станици) share symbology on the Piadyshev atlas with the minor town (местечко). The atlas attests to 72 Cossack villages spread across the territory of the Don Cossacks and Astrakhan province.
