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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 layer contains five confirmed canals and ten features that may, or may not, be canals as well. The five confirmed canals include the Mariinskoi, Berezinskoi, Ivanovskoi (pictured in the accompanying map), Oginskoi, and Ladoga canals. Together…

Cossack villages (станици) share symbology on the Piadyshev atlas with the minor town (местечко). The atlas attests to 72 Cossack villages spread across the territory of the Don Cossacks and Astrakhan province.

Of the ten customs locations noted on the atlas, five are on the Black Sea: Odessa, Ochakov, Nikolaev, Sevastopol, and Feodosiia. The others include St. Petersburg, three locations in Vilenskaia guberniia, and one in Lifliand.

The Piadyshev Atlas contains attestations of 459 district (uezd) towns. This is a bit odd, given the fact that the atlas describes 591 districts. How might we make up - or at least explain the shortfall? To start, the 43 districts in the Grand Duchy…

The districts were tertiary administrative units. Each was nested within a secondary unit (guberniia, oblast', or irregular division).The Piadyshev Atlas describes 583 districts, including 24 vladeniia and okruga in Georgia, 7 nachal'stva in the Don…