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Piadyshev's Geographical Atlas

The foundational layer of the Imperiia Project is Piadyshev's Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire. In fact, when it comes down to it, the project in its entirety stems from a single rogue idea: that this atlas, despite all its inaccuracies and insufficiencies, offers us better insight into the spatial structure of the Russian Empire than any Google Map or NASA satellite image or expert recreation of historical space ever could.


Dig into the content and context of the atlas:

The Atlas as Hunting Ground

The Spatial Profile of the Tsarist Empire

Observations

Calculations