
Sujet
General Map of Taurida Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and.., 1822. Creators: Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev, Military Topographical Depot.
Légende
General Map of Taurida Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the Distance in Versts between Them, 1822. This 1822 map ofTaurida Provinceis from a larger work,Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo(Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire. Compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Piadyshev, it reflects the detailed mapping carried out by Russian military cartographers in the first quarter of the 19th century. The map shows population centers (six gradations by size), postal stations, roads (four types), provincial and district borders, customs houses, and forts. Distances are shown in versts, a Russian measure, now no longer used, equal to 1.07 kilometers.Legends, the index of county names, and place-names are in Russian and French.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM24A00_047
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
64,9Mo (3,7Mo) / 41,0cm x 39,7cm / 4841 x 4686 (300dpi)