What We Work With
You know the old saying, “when you are holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail”?
Our team wields a hammer, and we take the responsibility seriously! Much of the historical record has a spatial component, but our goal is not to map the whole archive. Instead, we choose our nails carefully. In this phase of the project, we are working with collections: with groups of documents, records, maps, or narratives, that are structured the same way or describe the same sort of places. Our “nails” look something like this:
- Archival documents, both unpublished and published, are crucial to our project. We draw on document sets from central archives such as the Russian State Imperial History Archive, the Russian State Naval Archive, and the Russian State Military History Archive, as well as provincial archives.