(Covers to) VIII. Moskau. (to Accompany) Kriegsstrassen Karte eines Theiles von Russland und der angraenzenden laender.

• Main Author: Schubert, Friedrich Theodor
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1870
• Subjects: Arctic; Russland; Archangelsk; ural mountains
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Cover title to sheet VIII. A rare and important military map covering nearly the whole of European Russia and parts of neighboring countries, by the famous Russian military cartographer Theodor Friedrich Schubert [Fedor Fedorovic Subert] (1789-1865). Title noted on Sheet III. At a scale of about 1:1,400,000, in 16 colored sheets, maps and index, each sheet 43x 79 cm. or smaller, folded into 8 or 10 segments and mounted on linen, placed into a green marbled paper covered slip case, 22x14, with title. Printed in 1837, updates of roads, etc. dated to 1870. Shows a detailed view of the topography, roads, waterways, military colonies, old fortifications, etc. Covering from the northern part of the Black Sea (including the entire Crimean) to Archangelsk on the Arctic, and from Finland and Poland to the Ural mountains. Each part has its own border and scales, but they are designed so that they could be cut up and fitted together to make a very large wall map. Title on sheet III, includes extensive key on symbols for cities, villages, churches and monasteries, fortresses and other military sites, political boundaries, and boundaries of military colonies, postal stations, lighthouses, etc. After the German terms, the key gives a transliteration of the Russian in parentheses. It also indicates four colors (added by hand) for three different kinds of roads and the railway line. The first part of Russia's first railway, between St Petersburg and the Czar's residence at Tsarskoye Selo, opened in September 1837, the year the Vienna edition of the map was first published. This line is not printed on the map, but has been drawn in green in accordance with the key. The much longer line between St Petersburg and Moscow was completed in 1851 and does appear to be printed (it is also highlighted in green), so that the map must have been revised in or soon after 1851, in accordance with the 1854 and 1856 notations by the key. Additional updates appear to have been added up to circa 1870.