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

Large towns (большие города) are found only in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland.

This dataset contains 5,637 features with a total area of 253,258 square kilometers (km2). The majority are lakes (named and unnamed). Estuaries and inland seas are included as well.The largest of these features, according to the atlas geometry, is…

This layer showcases some of the most fine-grained, mind-bogglingly delicate feature tracing in the entire geodatabase. It contains the boundaries of the 771 inland islands depicted on the atlas. They range in size from a diminuitive 0.13 square…

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 122 fortresses shown on the atlas,

Two fortified lines appear on the Piadyshev atlas: (part of) the Ukrainian line, and the Caucasian line.

In the former kingdom of Georgia, annexed by Russia in 1801, we find towns distinguished by size and marked as fortified or unfortified.

While most peasants lived in villages, a peasant holding a farmstead (хутор, khutor) lived - together with his family - on the land.