Russia

This important map of the ‘Gulag’, the Soviet system of forced labour camps, is seemingly the earliest published example of what was to become one ...

Sarmatia utraque Europaea et Asiatica This map shows parts of European Russia and Ukraine in antiquity. For Greco-Roman geographers and ethnographe...

Estats du Grand Duc de Moscovie ou de l’Empereur de la Russie Blanche This map of Muscovy, or European Russia, was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouve...

Collins’ Chart of the Black Sea/Collins’ New Map of the Black Sea, shewing all the fortifications &c on an extended scale. Contemporary with th...

European Dominions of the Ottomans, or Turkey in Europe Greece had become an independent nation after the war of 1821-30, but most other Balkan sta...

This map of the Black Sea has been updated to show the 300 miles of submarine telegraph cable laid between Varna and Balaclava by Robert Stirling N...

Mappae Imperii Muscovitici pars Septentrionalis This detailed early 18th century map of Muscovy follows the cartography of De l’Isle, which include...

This map of Crimea was engraved by John Rapkin for the Illustrated Atlas. The inset is described as ‘Sebastopol before its investment’ (i.e. before...

Partie Méridionale de la Russie Européenne This is a late state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of southern Russia, Ukraine and parts of Poland. The or...