Imperiia: a spatial history of the Russian EmpireMain MenuAboutDashboardsData CatalogMapStoriesGalleriesGamesWho said history was boring?Map ShelfTeach Our ContentCiting the ProjectKelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5The Imperiia Project // Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
12020-10-27T00:55:43-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Nieszawa27A small town with a 500-year old Catholic church. Baedeker says that the country from here to Warsaw "is dotted with miserable-looking villages." We shall see. I have a sense that Baedeker and I do not always see eye-to-eye.plain104132021-01-19T11:55:57-05:0011/11/2020 16:1052.83452, 18.89921Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-10-27T01:45:44-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Włocławek26This place has history. It was destroyed not once, but twice, by the Teutonic Knights. And just 8 miles west there are ruins of walls and ramparts and moats. I live for ruins. I have been scouring Baedeker for such places and dog-earing the pages.plain2021-01-19T13:35:34-05:0011/11/2020 16:1852.64817, 19.0678Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-12-11T10:47:22-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Yaroslavl16a city of holy doorsplain2021-01-27T16:06:55-05:002020-12-16T17:0357.62987, 39.87368Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-12-11T10:15:36-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Tver15a sleep, a meal, a walk, a trip in a rickety cab, an embarkationplain2021-01-22T12:39:04-05:002020-12-14T09:5356.85836, 35.90057Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-12-11T10:53:24-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Kostroma11an assortment of Romanov wallsplain2021-01-29T13:20:14-05:002021-01-29T13:1357.76647, 40.92686Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-12-14T15:33:27-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Yaroslavl (plan)9map from Baedeker's Russia 1914plain2021-02-02T11:00:04-05:00191457.62987, 39.87368Karl Baedeker, Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking : handbook for travellers (Leipzig, 1914): page 331The book containing this map falls within the public domain.EnglishKelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-11T10:35:41-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Pyatigorsk (plan)7The plan is arranged in 3 rows and 4 columns.plain2021-02-02T10:49:31-05:00191444.04861, 43.05944Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-12T12:47:18-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Riga (plan)7Note: As is the case with many of the maps and plans rendered as plates, the binding of the Handbook makes it nearly impossible to stitch the page images together in an entirely satisfying way.plain2021-02-02T10:51:36-05:00191456.946, 24.10589Plan48_Riga_p53.jpgKelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-11T10:48:19-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Smolensk (plan)6The plan is arranged in 6 rows and 4 columns.plain2021-02-02T10:55:46-05:00191454.7818, 32.0401Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-11T10:37:30-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Sebastopol (plan)5The plan is arranged in 6 rows and 4 columns.plain2021-02-02T10:54:48-05:00191444.60795, 33.52134Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
