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Kartografii Tsarstva: Zemlia i Ee Znacheniia v Rossii XVII Veka
[ Kartografii Tsarstva: Zemlia i Ee Znacheniia v Rossii XVII Veka]
Cartographies of tsardom: The land and its meanings in seventeenth-century Russia Transl. by N. Mishakova
Moscow: NLO, 2012 360 p. [32 ill.] Serie: Historia Rossica Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785867939885 Language: Russian
This monograph by the American historian Valerie Kivelson shows the wonderful world of the Moscow cartography of the 17th century. The maps created for various purpose like sale of the land with the slaves or mapping unknown sites in Siberian colonies is a valuable source on social history of Russia, the spatial ideas, imperial policy and geographic expansion of people in pre-Petrine Russia. Bibliography. Index.