History about Russian Empire

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OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CARTOGRAPHY

with one aim in view - to display positional fea- tures relative to each other within a certain area (to- pology). The draftsmen believed it sufficient to observe metric properties in their works by provid- ing them with detailed in- dications of dimensions and sizes: areas for estates and households, and dis- tances in versts or days en route.

To make their works m o r e c o m p r e h e n s i v e , Russian cartographers of- ten used different scales within a single map, for

example, providing small-scale maps with large-scale plans of major towns and fortresses. In design, Russian seventeenth century maps were diverse. One can see how the rough, primitive large-scale plan of the vicinity of Gorodets (pres- ently in Nizhegorod Oblast’, Figure 4) differs from the relatively sophisticated middle-scale map of the Vorskla River region (the present North-Central Ukraine, Figure 5) and the map of territory to the South of Ryl’sk (presently, Kursk Oblast’, Figure 6).

Fig. 4

Figure 4. The Vicinity of Gorodets

Fig. 5

Figure 5. Map of the Vorskla River Region