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The korchma, translated in this project as tavern, was a genre of drinking establishment - one native to the Baltic provinces and the provinces formed from the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Coffee and tea were rarities in a korchma, as…

The Piadyshev atlas distinguishes between a post station found in avillage or town, and the sort of post station found out along the road (почтовая станица с двором). The atlas notes the presence of 3,567 post stations of the former variety, and…

There were over 1,000 main post roads crossing the empire in the 1820s.

Russia was a riverine-boreal empire, replete with rivers ranging from the mighty Volga to the seasonal streams washing down hillsides in the Caucasian highlands. Rivers were a fundamental element of Russia's spatial profile, and they are a…

This layer contains five confirmed canals and ten features that may, or may not, be canals as well. The five confirmed canals include the Mariinskoi, Berezinskoi, Ivanovskoi (pictured in the accompanying map), Oginskoi, and Ladoga canals. Together…

Of the ten customs locations noted on the atlas, five are on the Black Sea: Odessa, Ochakov, Nikolaev, Sevastopol, and Feodosiia. The others include St. Petersburg, three locations in Vilenskaia guberniia, and one in Lifliand.