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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…
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…
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…
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…
In the Grand Duchy of Finland, towns tend to be located along the coasts of the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia. Is this indicative of the general pattern of settlement? Does knowing the location of towns explain the geography of Finnish…