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Atlas Russicus: general map and 19 special maps of the Russian Empire, St Petersburg 1745 (Rumsey copy; sheets 14-19 cover Siberia to Kamchatka)

Атлас Российской империи

Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg (J.-N. Delisle, L. Euler, G. Heinsius)

Map: Atlas Russicus, Atlas Russicus, 1745 — 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.

compilation of instrumental surveys by the Petrine geodesists, Second Kamchatka Expedition results and Siberian provincial maps, edited at the Academy

Research notes

Two title issues (Latin/Russian and German); Rumsey holds both (5825 and 11093). Interior Mongolia and Dzungaria remain schematic; Delisle's role and his removal of materials to Paris are a known controversy (Bagrow, Postnikov).
Labels read on the general map: Тобольская провинция, Сибирская губерния, Часть Китайскаго государства, Киргиз-кайсацкия Средней и Меншей орды, Тихое море, Камчатское море.
Also recorded independently by the russian pass: Open scan + OCR text retrieved (title page) (archive.org/details/Atlasrossijskoj88_).
Also recorded independently by the maps european pass: Open; Luna record fields retrieved; IIIF image fetched at 800 px (HTTP 200, [800, 490]); MrSID download offered (davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1…).

Why it matters

The first complete Russian atlas; its Siberian sheets and the general map draw the boundary with the Chinese state and mark the Kazakh Middle and Little Hordes, i.e. the Russian state view of Inner Asia in 1745 without the Tartary label; it is the base of many later Western maps of Siberia.