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View of main street in Bahcesaray (Bakhchisaray). Crimean Tatars in ox-driven wagons ride down the street while others walk or sit on the side. Demidov notes that the street is "lined with shops selling things Tatar have produced for two centuries,"…

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

Full documentation of the process of georeferencing and creating the atlas mosaic.