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a golden toilet installed on the pedestal vacated by the Lenin statue in Kiev

1 map, hand colored. 44 x 59 cm. Prime meridian: Ferro. This map Appears in G. Delisle's "Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde."
(Scale ca. 1:3,150,00)

An early depiction of the Russian Empire by cartographer Isaac Maasa. Whether due to lack of information or assumptions about the size of other empires, this depiction of the Caspian Sea clearly privileges the Russian end of it. Astrkahan and the…

1 map, hand colored, 47 x 57 cm.
Depth shown by surroundings. Oriented with North to the left. Colored in outline. Includes illustrations.
Appears in: Atlas maior cum generales omnium totius orbis regnorum rerumpubi, atque insularum tum…

1 map, hand colored; 47 x 57 cm.
Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Covers portions of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.
Includes notes and illustrations. "Cum Priv. S. C. M."

Project for the New Church of the Holy Sepulchre
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects

This French map of the Russian Empire features the northern half of the Caspian Sea, as well as sites of industry and political borders.

This early map of the Caspian was published by Reiner Ottens in his appears in his Atlas maior (1720). This publication is primarily in Latin but contains notes in Dutch as well as place names in Greek, Russian, Persian, Arabic, and Turkish (in Latin…

The center of the immediate protest after the shooting was located on West Florissant Avenue, a major artery that runs through the Suburb, at the intersection with the road where Michael Brown was shot. The many stores along the road were the target…

This is a map consolidating all the above route maps, showing the region-wide priorities. While connections to Moscow were maintained, new destinations like Istanbul and Urumqi acquired new importance. But the network of inter-Central Asia flights…