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FREE DOWNLOAD OLD MAPS AND ATLAS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

Russian Empire (other names: All-Russian Empire, Russian state or Russia) was proclaimed as a result of the Northern War (1700-1721) by the Russian Tsar Peter I the Great and existed until the collapse of the monarchy in 1917.

The capital of the Russian Empire was first St. Petersburg from 1721 to 1728, then Moscow (1728-1730), and then again St. Petersburg (in 1914 the city was renamed Petrograd) in 1730-1917.

By the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire occupied 1/6 of the land and extended to the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Black Sea in the south, to the Baltic Sea in the west and the Pacific Ocean in the east.

On our website you can download for free the following old maps of the Russian Empire:

Atlas of Russia, 1745

A new map of the Russian Empire, divided into governorships, 1786

Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1792

Atlas of the Russian Empire, consisting of 52 maps, 1796

Pocket Postal Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1808

Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1820-1827

Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1843

, 1871

Maps of Russia from The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of The World, 1882

Maps of the Russian Empire from Reference Atlas of the World, 1887

Maps of the Russian Empire from Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer, 1909

Map of Communications of the Russian Empire, 1916

FREE DOWNLOAD OLD MAPS OF THE EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA

European Russia is the most populated and most developed part of the country located in Europe. The natural borders of European Russia from Asiatic were the Ural Range, r. Ural, Caspian Sea and Caucasus Range.

On our site you can download the following old maps of the European part of Russia for free:

General Land Survey Plans (PGM), 1766-1861

, 1799

Postal map of European Russia, 1871

Military topographic map of the western part of the Russian Empire (three-verst).

Schubert's map (Special map of the Western part of the Russian Empire), 1826-1840

Strelbitsky Map (Special Map of European Russia).

Marx's Large World Desktop Atlas (Map of European Russia), 1909

Large scale map of Russia in Europe, 1918

FREE DOWNLOAD OLD MAPS OF ASIAN RUSSIA

Asian Russia is a part of the Russian Empire located on the Asian continent. According to the Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Asian Russia includes Siberia, Central Asian possessions and the Caucasus region. The natural borders of Asian Russia from European Russia were the Ural Range, the river. Ural, Caspian Sea and Caucasus Range. Asian Russia occupied the entire northern part of Asia.

On our site you can download for free the following old maps of Asiatic Russia:

General map of Western Siberia with the Kirghiz steppe, 1848

Map of Asian Russia, 1868

Postal map of Asian Russia, Siberia, 1871

Map of Asiatic Russia with possessions adjacent to it, 1884

Road map along the rivers of Western Siberia: Ture, Tobol, Irtysh, Ob and Tom, 1884

Map of the lines of communication of Asiatic Russia, 1901

Atlas of Asian Russia, 1914

DOWNLOAD OLD MAPS OF INDIVIDUAL PROVINCES AND REGIONS FOR FREE

Province, the highest unit of administrative division and local device in Russia, which took shape in the 18th century. For the first time, the division of the Russian Empire into provinces was carried out in 1708-1715 by Tsar Peter I by decree on regional reform. In 1708, the country was divided into 8 provinces headed by governors, endowed with full judicial and administrative power. Later, Empress Catherine II carried out a public administration reform, during which Russia was divided into 50 provinces headed by governors.

By 1914, Russia was divided into 78 provinces, 21 regions and 2 independent districts, in which there were 931 cities, and the Russian Empire included the Baltic States, Little Russia, Belarus, part of Poland (the Kingdom of Poland), Bessarabia, North Caucasus, from the 19th century, in addition, Finland (the Grand Duchy of Finland), Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, middle Asia and etc

On our website you can download the following old maps of provinces and districts of the Russian Empire for free:

Download old maps of St. Petersburg province

Topographic map of the environs of Saint Petersburg, 1831

Topographic map of Saint Petersburg Governorate, 1834

Topographic map of parts of St. Petersburg and Vyborg provinces, 1860

Map of the Petrograd Governorate, 1916

Download old maps of the Moscow province:

Topographic map of Moscow Governorate, 1860

Map of the outskirts of Moscow, 1878

Download old maps of the Crimean peninsula:

Today we will talk about old Russian maps. The post will be short. Simply because, in general, they simply do not exist. I have seen thousands, if not tens of thousands, of foreign maps of this period. All the more strange is the situation with our maps.
The first Russian atlas that is in the public domain is Kirilov's Atlas, created between 1724 and 1737. (Download link) The atlas is not complete, unfortunately, there are not maps of all regions and localities of our country. But this is essentially the beginning of Russian cartography, no matter how strange it sounds.
There is, indeed, the so-called Drawing Book of Siberia (1699-1701), Remezov. (Download link) And also "Chorographic Book of Siberia" (1697-1711). It’s just their dating and correspondence to reality that personally raises a lot of questions for me. For example, I cite a map of Perm the Great from the Drawing Book. All images are clickable to large sizes.

These are the cards children draw in 1st grade. North is on the right (but this is very conditional). In general, in his works, Remezov clearly did not bother with the orientation of his "maps" to the cardinal points. From map to map, they constantly jump on the sides of the sheet. Such concepts as scale, proportion are absent from the word at all. At the same time, maps are already being created in the West, which are almost approaching modern ones in terms of accuracy.
User palexy one excerpt:
I have a map by D.G. Messeshmidt of 1721 (a section of the Ob tributaries of the Tom and Ini), which almost completely copies the map Remezov. The date of Messerschmidt’s expedition is indisputable since there are heaps of documents on it, but here is an excerpt from the diary cited by Nevlyanskaya: “Captain Tabbert went today with cornet Iorist to an artist named Remezov, in whom he saw a map of the Tomsk district painted with oil paints; he skimmed through it, but found nothing in it that was depicted correctly". (Novlyanskaya M. G. Philipp Johann Stralenberg. M.; L., 1966. P. 36.) .

Well, finally, on this map there are no cities discovered by me and. Hundreds of foreign maps have them, but Remezov does not. Peter the Great in 1708. They are mentioned in. But in fairness, I must say that it was on this map that I found the Molozhek River,.

There is such a Drawing of the Siberian land, compiled in 1667 under the guidance of the Tobolsk voivode, the stolnik Peter Ivanovich Godunov. From the service drawing book of S. U. Remezov (Manuscript Department of the State Public Library named after M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Hermitage Collection, No. 237, l 31 in a spread).

North is down here. As for Remezov's drawing book, they certainly got excited. As I already wrote, there was no orientation to the cardinal points at all.
And another version of the same card:

There are more on the net (I wanted to write a perfect one, but it's not) detailed version this card. Also attributed to Remezov. If you look from the point of view of the absence of any scale and proportions, then yes, this is Remezov. But the clear presence of the cardinal points suggests otherwise.

Looking for materials on the city of Velikaya Perm, I came across a small fragment of a map from the server of the Ural State University , which is designated as - Map of Perm the Great. 16th century Reproduction.

Again, North is down here. And there is the city of Perm. There he is, under the word "Cheremis". Unfortunately, the whole map could not be obtained. And where they dug it up there and did not find it.
I saw a few more similar maps on the net, but they are painfully muddy and terribly primitive. That's why I didn't even save them.
And now the most interesting.

Here it is in full size:

Feel the difference? Heaven and earth with Remezov's drawings. Even the parallels are correct. Unfortunately, the resolution of the map is not very high and many small inscriptions are not visible at all. But there are some things you can find out.
Belgorod Horde on the territory of modern Odessa region of Ukraine:

Small Tartaria (exactly what Tartaria) in the Black Sea steppes.

And to the right of it, separated by a border, is a place called Yurts of the Don Cossacks. Moreover, it stretches right up to the Volga, most likely.

By the way, I will give part of one map of 1614 from my post:.

Those. a hundred years earlier, these two areas were a single state. And precisely from his "Tatar yoke".
By the way, earlier it was the Tatars who called the Cossacks. I have about this. There, at the end, it is directly written that the Little Russian Cossacks live on the lands where the Tatar Cossacks used to live. Or maybe they were their descendants. Who knows.

Actually, that's all.

And finally, the Book: Ancient Russian hydrography, : Containing a description of the Moscow state of rivers, channels, lakes, troves, and what cities and tracts are along them and at what distance. - St. Petersburg: Published by Nikolai Novikov: [Type. Acad. Sciences], 1773 . Now it is better known under the name "The Book of the Big Drawing". This is the same map of the 16th, early 17th century, only handwritten. Actually, it is possible that Remezov drew his drawings precisely from such texts.
By the way, there is an interesting passage in the preface:

That's exactly the same thing with our cards. They just didn't exist. More precisely, they probably were. But either they were destroyed, or they lie deep deep in the archives. Simply because there is a completely different history of Russia. Where were the cities rediscovered by me,. By the way, the last one, but this did not stop modern historians from stubbornly repeating that he did not exist.

Yesterday I was told that as many as 10,000 old maps are stored in the archives of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. I still don’t know exactly what kind of maps these are, ours or foreign ones and what centuries, but I really hope that there will also be Russian old maps of the 16-17th and early 18th centuries. My friends are now trying to scan it all and post it online. God bless them all. And then we will learn a little more truth about the history of that time.

Addition :

Today we will look at two Russian maps of the early 18th century from the archives of the Russian National Library. Although the word "we'll see" here is very conditional. I have a very strong desire to put all the leadership of this library against the wall and shoot them with a heavy machine gun. They are saboteurs, not scientists.

Let's see firstA map of the hemispheres of 1713, published by V.O. Kipriyanova. The map is large, but the resolution of the image is, on the contrary, small. Therefore, it is fashionable to watch only very large recordings. Click to open in larger resolution. But something can be drawn from it. Pay attention to Antarctica. She is not. I somehow specifically looked at similar atlases of Western cartographers. There is also no Antarctica until the beginning of the 19th century, when our sailors discovered it. So if you see old map, where Antarctica is present, you know, it was made in the second half of the 19th century. Or later.
I would like to draw attention to the high degree of skill of the then Russian cartographers. . And I repeat my thought - these are not maps, but children's drawings at the elementary school level.

And another map by the same author: The geographic globe, that is, the earth-descriptive one from "reveals four parts of the earth, Africa, Asia, America, and Europe, which is inhabited, and which embraces us from everywhere. By command in the civil printing house of the Summer of the Lord: 1707. In the reigning City of Moscow, by the care of Vasily Kiprianov. Under the supervision of His Excellency Mr. General Lieutenant Jacob Villimovich Bruce.
Its here at this link more or less to consider. But after that I want to strangle the programmers there with bare hands, long long time. You can't steal the whole map from there, so I took a few screenshots from there. And on them, ours is waiting for several interesting discoveries. Namely, the word - "Sarmat" right under the letter M of the word Moscow. And above is visibleOcean Sarmatian.

Here is another excerpt. The Scythian was also added to the Sarmatian Ocean. To the right of the name "M. Moskovsky". I didn’t understand what it means. The word TARTARIA is written in capital letters. Through the "r". Just above the beginning of this word, the names - Scythia are visible. But above the letter "I" in the word "Siberia" the river "Tatar" is visible. Above the word "MOSCOW" it also seems to be written - Sarmatia. Again, why is Russia or Russia not written? But what the word "Asinsky" means is not clear.

Oh, it was not in vain that Lomonosov wrote in his book:. Brief Russian chronicler with a genealogy, St. Petersburg: At Imp. Acad. Sciences, 1760.

And finally, Description of Europe. The truth is very hard to see. Gaul is written instead of France. There is also some kind of Dacia. Poland is written without soft sign. At the very end, it seems to be written Yelladu. For information . But Russia is here. And she, as I understand it, is in European Moscow and Tartaria as well as Turks. Or are they separate states on the territory of the continent?

There is a very interesting line in the description:
Drawings: above the hemispheres the coat of arms of the Russian Empire against the background of an ermine mantle supported by archangels with swords in their hands; in the frame of the mantle of the figure of Mars, Apollo, banners and other military paraphernalia;
And here they are. And this is far from an isolated case. by name . And it all fits very well in my , which we simply called the Golden Woman.

If someone can pull out the whole map from here in more or less good resolution, I will be very grateful.

Addition: The world is not without kind people and thanks to the respected prostoyoleg we can see the entire map. True, in the same not very high resolution.

Addition.

And these are separate files.

Midnight ocean is cool.

Is it strange, the Adriatic Sea or the Western Ocean?

And here is the Devkali Ocean. In general, earlier, as it seems to me, slightly different types of water areas were called the sea and the ocean.

Addition .

The Russian National Library, St. Petersburg, is slowly digitizing its collections. And even puts them on public display.
Pikart P. of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania drawing / By decree of his most powerful royal majesty, Peter Pikart grumbled in Moscow; [Cartouche grav. A. Shkhonebek]. - Moscow: Armory, . But the map itself was definitely drawn much earlier. Kyiv is still part of Lithuania on it, while according to official history it became part of the Muscovite state in 1667. Moreover, I have a strong feeling that in Moscow it was only engraved and created in that very Principality of Lithuania, in the middle of the 17th century.

Click to open in high resolution.

There are a lot of unknown toponyms. Crimea is written here as Tartaria. As well as on the Russian map of the late 17th century from my main post. And only in the 18th century they began to call Tartaria Tataria. Pay attention to Crimea, In addition to Kafa and Perekop, not a single familiar name. the sea is formerly called East Lake.

Pay attention to how Koenigsberg is called on this map. I climbed into Wiki and found an amazing text there:
Under the name Korolevets (Korolevets) or Korolevets, the castle and the area around it have been mentioned for a long time, starting from the 13th century, in various Russian sources: chronicles, books, atlases. In Russia, this name was widely used before Peter I and, occasionally, in more late period, until the beginning of the 20th century, including in fiction, for example, in the texts of M. Saltykov-Shchedrin. However, after Peter I and before the renaming in 1946, Russians more often used the German version.
Heh, I didn’t say in vain in my investigation that the Slavs lived there.

In general, if you take a look and compare the map with the official history, then the list of inconsistencies will be more than a dozen pages long. Well, this is a banal matter for our history.

Addition :

There was such a city as Byzantium. Here is his plan

The plan of Constantinople or Tsar Grad, formerly known as Byzantium of old, Vigos was conquered by Mohammed the second of the year of the Lord, 1453, the month of May on the 29th day] / [Drawn by Prince Dimitry Kantemir]; Grydor. Alexy Zubov in San[kt] P[eter]burg. - St. Petersburg: [Petersburg Printing House], .

IN . The French were not too lazy and sorted them all out. The main thing here is that until now some of the earliest maps of areas were considered Kirilov's maps, 1722-1731 . By the way, they are also part of it. eat. And here is a completely new, still generally unseen, cartographic material. And there I found the city of Staraya Rezan.

North is on the left. This, by the way, is one of the signs, as I understand it, of maps of the 17th century. Already at 18, it became a rule to orient maps of specific areas to the north. And before that, cartographers drew them, as it suits them best. The most obvious example is Remizov's maps. There, the north "walks" in a circle just randomly. You will break your brains until you understand what and how is drawn on a particular map. In general, Russian maps of the 17th century, for the most part, are oriented to the south. Like a map of Siberia and Far East from the same Remezov. At least he is credited with this card.
As for Europe, I will give an example from my old posts - . The north is also not static there. years, everything settled down and took on a modern framework.
I have a very reasonable suspicion that all the maps that we now know were made no earlier than the end of the 17th century. True, according to the old originals, which by that time had simply dilapidated and fell into disrepair. Well, some, of course, were simply faked in the 18th century. 19 centuries. This can be seen from the correct proportions and contours of the terrain. If you look at Russian maps, pay attention to two things. The Caspian should be round and not elongated. And near the Crimea, the Kerch region should be, as it were, chopped off and not stretched to the left, as it is now.

So we see the cities of Kolomna and Kashira. Further along the Oka, the city of Pereslavl-RIzan. And behind him is the Old Rezan. Please note that the old name is the letter "e". Somewhere before the beginning of the 18th century, we almost did not have the letter "I". Therefore, there was, among other things, Eroslavl.
The city of Staraya Rezan has a complicated history. First, it was destroyed at the end of the 16th century by the Tatars, then it existed, along with the new Rezan, as a small village. But already at the beginning of the 18th century it grew to a city. until the middle of the 18th century and then disappeared again. The authorities announced that it was destroyed by Batu in the 13th century. In this format of the settlement, it still exists as an archaeological monument. But there you can still see pieces of temples of the 18th century.
And in 1781, Catherine the Second, renamed Pereslav-Ryazan into simply Ryazan, which still exists. Thanks to her for this. Otherwise, the toponym could go down in history almost without a trace, like the city of Bulgar and Bulgaria. And then Batu, he is like Shurik, everything can be attributed to him.

The Russian Empire (other names: All-Russian Empire, Russian State or Russia) was proclaimed following the results of the Northern War (1700-1721) by the Russian Tsar Peter I the Great and lasted until the collapse of the monarchy in 1917.

The capital of the Russian Empire was first St. Petersburg from 1721 to 1728, then Moscow (1728-1730), and then again St. Petersburg (in 1914 the city was renamed Petrograd) in 1730-1917.

On our website you can download for free the following old maps of the Russian Empire:

Atlas of Russia, 1745
A new map of the Russian Empire, divided into governorships, 1786
Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1792
Atlas of the Russian Empire, consisting of 52 maps, 1796
Pocket Postal Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1808
Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1820-1827
Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1843
, 1871
Maps of Russia from The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of The World, 1882
Maps of the Russian Empire from Reference Atlas of the World, 1887
Maps of the Russian Empire from Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer, 1909
Map of Communications of the Russian Empire, 1916

Free download old maps of the European part of Russia

On our site you can download the following old maps of the European part of Russia for free:

General Land Survey Plans (PGM), 1766-1861
, 1799
Postal map of European Russia, 1871
Military topographic map of the western part of the Russian Empire (three-verst).
Schubert's map (Special map of the Western part of the Russian Empire), 1826-1840
Strelbitsky Map (Special Map of European Russia).
Marx's Large World Desktop Atlas (Map of European Russia), 1909
Large scale map of Russia in Europe, 1918

Free download old maps of Asiatic Russia

On our site you can download for free the following old maps of Asiatic Russia:

General map of Western Siberia with the Kirghiz steppe, 1848
Map of Asian Russia, 1868
Postal map of Asian Russia, Siberia, 1871
Map of Asiatic Russia with possessions adjacent to it, 1884
Road map along the rivers of Western Siberia: Ture, Tobol, Irtysh, Ob and Tom, 1884
Map of the lines of communication of Asiatic Russia, 1901
Atlas of Asian Russia, 1914

Free download old maps of individual provinces and regions

Province, the highest unit of administrative division and local structure in Russia, which took shape in the 18th century. For the first time, the division of the Russian Empire into provinces was carried out in 1708-1715 by Tsar Peter I by decree on regional reform. In 1708, the country was divided into 8 provinces headed by governors, endowed with full judicial and administrative power. Later, Empress Catherine II carried out a public administration reform, during which Russia was divided into 50 provinces headed by governors.

By 1914, Russia was divided into 78 provinces, 21 regions and 2 independent districts, in which there were 931 cities, and the Russian Empire included the Baltic states, Little Russia, Belarus, part of Poland (the Kingdom of Poland), Bessarabia, the North Caucasus, from the 19th century, in addition, Finland (Grand Duchy of Finland), Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, etc.

On our website you can download the following old maps of provinces and districts of the Russian Empire for free:

Download old maps of St. Petersburg province

Topographic map of the environs of Saint Petersburg, 1831
Topographic map of Saint Petersburg Governorate, 1834
Topographic map of parts of St. Petersburg and Vyborg provinces, 1860
Map of the Petrograd Governorate, 1916

Download old maps of the Moscow province:

Topographic map of Moscow Governorate, 1860
Map of the outskirts of Moscow, 1878

Download old maps of the Crimean peninsula:

I bring to your attention several maps of Chertanov 18th-19th centuries.
The cards are arranged in descending order of years.

Map from 1860.
Card taken
Chertanovka is called Vodyanka, this is not a mistake, it was partially called before, now Vodyanka is a tributary of Chertanovka. Chertanovo was named ChertanovA by analogy with the villages of landowners, which is not true.

Map 18 52-1856
The map was taken from a file sharing service.
A very curious map. Especially - "Drinking House", "Etap", "Vyselki Chertanovy", "Stone Quarry", "Barrows" (Vyatichi!), Shop (?). Chertanovka is called Gorodyanka, although in the past the Gorodnya River was often referred to as Gorodyanka. There is no Paveletskaya railway yet.

Map from 1849.
Card taken

1848 map
The following fragments of the map were photographed and sent by Marina Chusova.

The map is taken from the dust jacket of the book. "Architectural Monuments of Moscow", Volume 8." Topographic map suburbs of Moscow. Photographed under the direction of General Lieutenant Schubert and engraved at the Military Topographic Depot. 1848" Paper, engraving. The map is made in the finest technique of engraving. The presented images are sketches. You can download the first 4 fragments in a good original size, in which you actually need to look at the map:

1818 map
Kart but taken.
Amazing clarity!

Color option.
The card has been taken.

Reconstruction of the plan for the general survey of the Moscow district in 1766-1770. V.S. Kusov. Land of the Moscow province in the XVIII century., M., 2004.
Plan taken