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

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

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General Map of Poltava Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the Distance in Versts between Them, 1821. This 1821 map of Poltava 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 (seven gradations by size), postal stations, roads (four types), state, provincial and district borders,factories, monasteries, and forts. 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 French. The territory depicted on the map lies within present-day eastern Ukraine.


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Creator
  1. Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev, attributed to: Russian: Colonel, cartographer
  2. Faleleef, attributed to: Russian?: Cartographer
People Related
  1. Military Topographical Depot: Russian: Russian military topographical department

Picture Type
  1. Cartographic
  2. Map

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe Ukraine

  1. 49 00 00 N , 032 00 00 E

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Artistic Representations Maps


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4902x4720
File Size : 67,786kb


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  1. 2018688657
  1. 1010035666
  1. 2018688657
  1. 3-004-078
  1. 3004078

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