(Cherson). (to accompany) Kriegsstrassen Karte eines Theiles von Russland und der angraenzenden laender.

• Main Author: Schubert, Friedrich Theodor
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1854
• Subjects: Roads; Military; Arctic; Russland; Archangelsk; ural mountains
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Engraved color map. Relief shown by shadings. Title supplied by cataloger. 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 from sheet III. At a scale of about 1:1,400,000, in 15 sheets (our other two editions of this map have a 16th sheet, Tiflis, that was not present in this set, nor shown on the Index Sheet). Includes an index sheet, with title "Squelette der Kriegsstrassenkarte von Russland". Each sheet 41x 66 cm. or smaller, folded into 8 or 10 segments and mounted on linen, placed in slip cover and cardboard case 20 x 14. With a library note placed on the case. It gives 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. The extensive key below the title on sheet 3, gives symbols for cities, villages, etc. (8 levels), churches and monasteries, fortresses and other military sites, political boundaries (4 levels plus the boundaries of military colonies), roads (6 kinds, in part to indicate whether they could be used during the winter), 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 ap