A Mirror of the World: Five Centuries of Geographical Atlases
[Geographical and Statistical Pocket Atlas of Russia. Adolf Marx. St.-Petersburg: Adolf Marx's Publishing House, 1907.]
Geograficheskii i statisticheskii karmannii atlas Rossii. A.F.Marks. St.Petersburg: Izdanie Tovarishchestva A.F.Marks,1907
1 vol.(172 pp., 46 pl.) 19х12 cm. Coloured. Lithograph.
Shelfmark: К 3-Росс 6/217
The atlas represents the state, social and economic life of the Russian Empire in simple and popular form. Physical geography, political and administrative, ethnographic, population density, transport, land-use maps are included. Most of the information (on population, languages and dialects, popular education, natural resources, industry, trade, communication, finances) is given in tables and colourful diagrams. Illustrations show Russian flags and coins.
The idea to create the atlas was formulated by Adolf Marx. He also developed the plan for the edition and the arrangement of the material. Work on the atls took four years.
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