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Lastochkino gni︠e︡zdo Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Various views and studies, Russian Empire and Europe, LOT 10333, no. 49. Digital color rendering and retouching by Walt Frankhauser, WalterStudio, 2017-2022. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about the Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.prok...

Contributor: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich
Date: 1905

Map

Generalʹnai︠a︡ Karta Tavricheskoĭ Gubernii Sʺ pokazaniemʺ pochtovykhʺ i bolʹshikhʺ proi︠e︡zzhikhʺ dorogʺ, stant︠s︡iĭ i razstoi︠a︡nii︠a︡ mezhdu onymi verstʺ.
Генеральная Карта Таврической Губернiи Съ показанiемъ почтовыхъ и большихъ проѣзжихъ дорогъ, станцiй и разстоянiя между оными верстъ. This 1822 map ofTaurida Provinceis from a larger work,Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo(Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire. Compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Piadyshev, it reflects the detailed mapping carried out by Russian military cartographers in the first quarter of the...

Contributor: Pi︠a︡dyshev, Vasiliĭ Petrovich - Russia. General Staff. Military Topographical Depot - Finaghenof
Date: 1822
Resource: - 1 page

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Tavricheskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.
Таврическая губерния. This early-19th century playing card is from a set of 60 such cards, each devoted to a different province or territory of the Russian Empire, which at the time included the Grand Duchy of Finland, Congress Poland, and Russian America. One side of each card shows the local costume and the provincial coat of arms; the other side contains a map. This card depicts...

Contributor: Gribanov, K. M.
Date: 1800
Resource: - 2 pages

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Description of Ukraine, or Regions of the Kingdom of Poland between Muscovy and Transylvania. Presented here is an early translation into Russian of Description d'Ukranie, an influential work first published in French in 1651. The author, Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of which was then under Polish control, took part in battles with the Cossacks and Tatars, and in 1639...

Contributor: Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur, Sieur De, Born Approximately 1600
Date: 1832
Resource: - 222 pages

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People Await the Opening of a Soup Kitchen in Aleksandrovsk, Ukraine. This photograph shows hungry people, mostly women and children, waiting with their containers for the soup kitchen to open in Aleksandrovsk (present-day Zaporozhye), Ukraine, in 1921. Famine struck the Soviet Union in 1921, one of the consequences of seven years of war. Under the auspices of the American Relief Administration (ARA) established by the United States government, the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds...

Contributor: Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers
Date: 1921
Resource: - 1 page

Map

Generalʹnai︠a︡ Karta Khersonskoĭ Gubernii Sʺ pokazaniemʺ pochtovykhʺ i bolʹshikhʺ proi︠e︡zzhikhʺ dorogʺ, stant︠s︡iĭ i razstoi︠a︡nii︠a︡ mezhdu onymi verstʺ.
Генеральная Карта Херсонской Губернiи Съ показанiемъ почтовыхъ и большихъ проѣзжихъ дорогъ, станцiй и разстоянiя между оными верстъ. This 1821 map of Kherson Provinceis from a larger work,Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo(Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire. Compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Piadyshev, it reflects the detailed mapping carried out by Russian military cartographers in the first quarter of...

Contributor: Pi︠a︡dyshev, Vasiliĭ Petrovich - Faleleef - Russia. General Staff. Military Topographical Depot
Date: 1821
Resource: - 1 page

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V Alupki︠e︡. Krym Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Various views and studies, Russian Empire and Europe, LOT 10333, no. 48. Digital color rendering and retouching by Walt Frankhauser, WalterStudio, 2005-2020. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about the Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.prok...

Contributor: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich
Date: 1905

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The native races of the Russian empire.

Contributor: Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Date: 1854
Resource: - 17 pages

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The bondage and travels of Johann Schiltberger : a native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 On spine: Travels of Schiltberger. Translation of: Reisen in Europa, Asien, und Afrika von 1394-1427. Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-xiv) and index.

Contributor: Schiltberger, Johannes
Date: 1879
Resource: - 22 pages

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The preaching of Islam; a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith, The Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith is an important early work by the British Orientalist and historian of Islamic art Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (1864-1930). Arnold was born in Devonport, Devon, England, and graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1888 he moved to British India, where he taught philosophy at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College (present-day Aligarh Muslim...

Contributor: Arnold, Thomas Walker
Date: 1913
Resource: - 4 pages

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The journey of William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world, 1253-55, Translation of: Itinerarium. Bibliography: p. [xlvii]-lvi.

Contributor: Giovanni - Ruysbroek, Willem Van - Ruysbroeck, Willem Van - Rockhill, William Woodville
Date: 1900
Resource: - 11 pages

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Plants of the Lloyd botanic garden, Darjeeling,

Contributor: Biswas, Kalipada
Date: 1940
Resource: Volume 5 - No. 5 - 1 page

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Central Asian questions; Demetrius Charles Boulger (1853-1928) was a British orientalist who wrote prolifically on topics mainly related to the British Empire. With Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1840-1908), a British administrator in India, he co-founded the Asiatic Quarterly Review, which he edited for a time. An unapologetic imperialist with strongly anti-Russian views, Boulger criticized the British government for its lack of assertiveness, as he saw it, in...

Contributor: Boulger, Demetrius Charles
Date: 1885
Resource: - 3 pages

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The languages of the seat of war in the East. With a survey of the three families of language, Semitic, Arian and Turanian.

Contributor: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Date: 1855
Resource: - 4 pages

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Campaigns of Osman sultans,

Contributor: Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph - Dale, Thomas Aquila
Date: 1835
Resource: - 7 pages

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Ashmead-Bartlett's despatches from the Dardanelles. Portrait on cover.

Contributor: Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis
Date: 1915
Resource: - 1 page

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The exploration of the world. Added t. p., illus. Series title also at head of t. p.

Contributor: Leigh, Dora - Verne, Jules
Date: 1882
Resource: - 4 pages

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The Anzac book;

Date: 1916
Resource: - 1 page

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A journey through the Yemen and some general remarks upon that country, "The chapter on the Yemen rebellion was published as an article in 'Blackwood's magazine' for February last [1893]"--Pref. Appendix: Genealogical and chronological tree of the imams of Sanaa. A list of imams of Sanaa, giving their full titles. Pedigree of the reigning Abdali sultan of Lahej.

Contributor: Harris, Walter
Date: 1893
Resource: - 2 pages

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Through the heart of Asia: over the Pamïr to India.

Contributor: Bonvalot, Gabriel - Pitman, C.
Date: 1889

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Trailing the Bolsheviki : twelve thousand miles with the allies in Siberia,

Contributor: Ackerman, Carl W. (Carl William)
Date: 1919
Resource: - 1 page

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The land of Midian (revisited). LAC ael 2019-03-21 update (1 card)

Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
Date: 1879

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Modern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested ... "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.