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General Map of the Russian Empire, composed as accurately as possible by the labour of Ivan Kirilov, St Petersburg 1734

Генеральная карта Российской Империи ... 1734 = Imperii Russici tabula generalis ... Ioannis Kyrilow, Petropoli

Ivan Kirilov, St Petersburg

Map: General Map of the Russian Empire, composed as accurately as possible by the labour of…, Kirilov, 1734 — Picture: David Rumsey Map Collection (CC BY-NC-SA). See it at full size at the library

How we know

compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.

Official compilation from Russian geodesists' surveys of the 1720s-1730s and earlier Siberian mapping; the first general map of Russia published in Russia.

Research notes

Kirilov's map was later superseded by the Academy's Atlas Russicus (1745); Homann's Imperii Russici et Tartariae universae tabula (c.1739) and Seutter copied it. Russian team may hold the primary record.
Rumsey note: Map of Russian Empire. Russian title is in upper left and Latin title is in upper right. Shows provinces, major cities, towns, rivers and lakes. Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouches decorated with landscape and allegorical figures. Kirilov's map was the first map published in Rus
Also recorded independently by the russian pass: Rumsey JSON record retrieved with download link (detail page shows access verification gate); RSL viewer page loads (JS application), images not sampled (davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1…).
Also recorded independently by the maps noneuropean pass: Luna record retrieved; IIIF image fetched at 2000 px and inspected (davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1…).

Why it matters

Russian official map that replaces 'Tartary' with administrative provinces of Siberia while still naming steppe peoples; a control against the Western Tartaria plates and the Russian team's inventory (recorded here as the map object state at Rumsey).

Places named

Russian Empire including Siberia to Kamchatka; Caspian; Kalmyk and Kazakh steppe; Chinese frontier

Who copied whom

Later in the chain

Map of the Russian Empire and of all Tartary, both the Greater Asiatic and the… M084, c. 1739
drawn from this one (stated)
Homann Heirs c.1739 from Kirilov 1734
Atlas Russicus M100, 1745
drawn from this one (stated)
Atlas Russicus 1745 from Kirilov 1734 and Petrine surveys

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