Roads & Travel Infrastructure

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…

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

The Piadyshev atlas attests to the presence of 576 post houses. In some cases the post house (почтовой двор) was freestanding; in others it was designated as a "post station with a post house". The main distinction between the features in this layer…