Russian Empire in Europe, The. / NW Sheet. Map by Frdr. Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839). Steel engraving colored in outline. (1836.) 28.4 x 22.8 cm.
Title sheet of the 4-sheet map. – The coast from Stettin , with Königsberg , the Baltic Provinces & Finland as well as the Gulf of Bothnia. The Swedish coast from Ystad, otherwise still with Gothenburg & Christiania, in the north from Tromsø via Hammerfest – North Cape to Kola Peninsula, in the southeast still with Tver. Finely entered Petersburg along with the Ladoga Canal executed by Burchard Christoph von Münnich “which … should make Russia’s trade with the rest of Europe thrive … (and) immortalized (Münnich’s) name in the field of hydraulic engineering” (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie XXIII [1886], 19 ff.). – With the postal routes .
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