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Black Sea Steamship Company Voyage Map
12026-02-27T13:21:29-05:00Anastasiia Pereverten1dee3aa5075817eb04077dbae88a1030d7d4ebb491In 1856, the Treaty of Paris required Russia to remove its fleet and naval installations from the Black Sea. But as the saying goes, when a door closes, a window opens: that same year, the tsarist government approved the charter for the Black Sea Steamship Company. This civilian enterprise would sail throughout the Black and Mediterranean seas. The thicker the yellow line, the greater the number of scheduled voyages along a given route. The wider the transparent underlayer, the greater the government subsidy (measured in rubles per mile). As you can see, each route represents a different mixture of (imperial) ambition and (consumer) demand.plain2026-02-27T13:21:29-05:00Anastasiia Pereverten1dee3aa5075817eb04077dbae88a1030d7d4ebb4
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