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Topographical descriptions

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Obsessive narrative description of new territories was a crucial aspect of empire building. Coastlines, estuaries, mountain ranges, deserts, forests, islands—the trained eyes of men of science described them in topographical descriptions and expedition reports in exhaustive detail, with an eye for sources of wealth and prestige.

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Contents of this path:

  1. A historical, geographical, and topographical description of St. Petersburg
  2. A historical and topographical description of the towns of Moscow province and its districts
  3. A topographical description of Kharkov namestnichestvo
  4. A topographical description of the town of Kazan and its districts
  5. A short physical and topographical description of Tavrida province
  6. A historical and topographical description of the ancient town of Moscow
  7. A historical, geographical, and economic description of Voronezh province
  8. A historical, geographical, topographical, and political description of the town of Pereiaslav Zeleskii
  9. A geographical and statistical description of Georgia and the Caucasus
  10. A medical-topographical description of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
  11. A historical and topographical description of the male monastery of the Miracle-Worker Nikolai
  12. A new historical, political, statistical, and geographical description of the Kingdom of Poland
  13. Khiva, or a geographical and statistical description of the Khivan Khanate
  14. Geographical, historical, and statistical description of the Solovetskii monastery
  15. Topographical description of Chernigov namestnichestva