Hard (for me) to translate map of Imperial Russia. Beautiful. Author unknown. From 1786. Help me translate?
| New Map of Imperial Russian (something) divided into (something) | |
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| Date: | 1786 |
| Author: | ?? |
| Dwnld: | Full Size (19.5mb) |
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Somebody must know something about this beauty. Who's got some time to translate some Russian?
Any one know the projection for this map?
It says:
New Map of the Russian Empire. Divided into Gubernatorial Regions (a special term for regions ruled by governor-generals under the czar).
The deepest thing I’ve ever seen!
Sounds like the punchline to a bad joke I heard at the bar the other day…
Yep, it’s a “New Map of the Russian Empire, Divided Into Namestnichestva” (lit. “viceroyalties,” but corresponding to provinces and ruled by governors-general).