The Piadyshev Atlas describes two semi-autonomous, or primary, administrative regions (the atlas does not include mention of namestnichestva or governor-generalships):
the Grand Duchy of Finland (acquired in 1809);
the Kingdom of Poland…
This map can be found on page 233 of Baedeker's Handbook. This particular copy was made accessible by the Getty Research Institute and HathiTrust. Click here to read the catalog entry. The plans in this collection are annotated and tagged in the…
From the Meeting of Frontiers project: "This souvenir set of eighty-two illustrated cards–one for each province of the Russian empire--presents an overview of each region’s culture, history, economy, and geography in the second half of the nineteenth…