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Footnote containing definition of a "splavnaia reka"

Image generated with DALLE-3 using prompt: can you generate an image of a group of late 18th century French spies in a sea port town in imperial Russia?

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

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

Details of the 60 fortresses depicted in the Atlas of Fortresses of the Russian Empire (circa 1830).

Of the 122 fortresses shown on the atlas,