General Map of Mogilev Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and..., 1821. Creators: Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev, Faleleef.

General Map of Mogilev Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and..., 1821. Creators: Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev, Faleleef.

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General Map of Mogilev Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the Distance in Versts between Them, 1821. This 1821 map of Mogilev 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,monasteries, factories, and taverns. Distances are shown in versts, a Russian measure, now no longer used, equal to 1.07 kilometers.Legends and place-names are in Russian and Polish.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev, attributed to: Russian: Colonel, cartographer
  2. Faleleef, attributed to: Russian?: Cartographer

Picture Type
  1. Cartographic
  2. Map

Geographic Hierarchy

World Asia Russia

  1. 60 00 00 N , 047 00 00 E

World Europe Belarus Mahilyowskaya Voblasts' Mogilev

  1. 53 54 00 N , 030 21 00 E

Category Hierarchy

Artistic Representations Maps


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4975x4696
File Size : 68,446kb


Aliases

  1. 2018688648
  1. 1010035660
  1. 2018688648
  1. 3-004-072
  1. 3004072

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