Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire, 83 sheets, St Petersburg 1820-1827 (1829 issue): Orenburg (no.50), Tomsk, Irkutsk and Kamchatka sheets bordering the Kirghiz-Kaisak and Chinese frontiers
Географический атлас Российской империи, Царства Польского и Великого княжества Финляндского
V. P. Pyadyshev, Military Topographic Depot
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
official compilation from the Military Topographic Depot's surveys and provincial maps, 1820-1827
Research notes
- Sheets dated 1829 though the atlas was compiled 1820-1827; engraved by several hands (Ivanov, Faleleev, Eremin). Rumsey lists no separate Kirghiz steppe sheet; the steppe is shown only as frontier.
- Frontier key on the Orenburg sheet: I-K Владения Киргиз Кайсаковъ / les domaines des Kirghiz-Kaisak; H-I Область Омская / Province d'Omsk. Bilingual legend.
Why it matters
The standard Russian official atlas of the 1820s: its Orenburg sheet fixes the imperial boundary against the domains of the Kirghiz-Kaisaks and its Siberian sheets against China, documenting the administrative frontier at the moment the older Tartary label had vanished from Russian state maps.
Places named
Russian Empire by province; Orenburg, Tomsk, Irkutsk provinces; Kamchatka; the Kirghiz-Kaisak domains as outer frontier
Who copied whom
- drawn from this one (stated)SDUK 1838 from Pyadyshev 1820s
- Siberia and Chinese Tartary M059, 1838drawn from this one (stated)SDUK 1838 from Pyadyshev
- Carte de la Siberie ou Russie d’Asie M071, 1832drawn from this one (stated)Lapie from the Russian Academy and Pyadyshev
Keep exploring
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