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Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.
detail from the first Austrian-made atlas of the world
One of the questions raised by this map is whether or not the geography of post houses stands in as a map of low population density, or perhaps of negligible state power? After all, the post houses run through the Don Cossack lands, along the…
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…