De L'Isle Map of the Russian Empire
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DE L'ISLE, Joseph Nicolas (1688-1768) & KIRILOV, Ivan Kirillovich, (1689-1737).
[Russian Empire] Mappa Generalis Totius Imperii Russici.
Engraved map.
c. 1745.
27" x 40 1/2" sheet.
The final map of the first atlas of Russia: Atlas Russicus, Mappa una Generali et Undeviginti Specialibus Vastissimum Imperium Russicum, building on the pioneering work of Ivan K. Kirilov. In commissioning this great Atlas, Peter the Great made a significant contribution to the modernization of his vast empire of Imperial Russia, the largest in the world. The enlightened Tsar also invited De L'isle to found a school of Astronomy in St. Petersburg, and although Peter the Great died a year before De L'isle arrived in St. Petersburg in 1726, he was successful in achieving both of his Imperial commissions. Together with his partner Ivan Kirilov they founded the school of Astronomy and began the immense task of surveying the Russian Empire. Eventually the two men parted company and Kirilov decided to publish his own incomplete atlas of Russia in 1734, eleven years before De L'isle's French team finished its more comprehensive work.
[Russian Empire] Mappa Generalis Totius Imperii Russici.
Engraved map.
c. 1745.
27" x 40 1/2" sheet.
The final map of the first atlas of Russia: Atlas Russicus, Mappa una Generali et Undeviginti Specialibus Vastissimum Imperium Russicum, building on the pioneering work of Ivan K. Kirilov. In commissioning this great Atlas, Peter the Great made a significant contribution to the modernization of his vast empire of Imperial Russia, the largest in the world. The enlightened Tsar also invited De L'isle to found a school of Astronomy in St. Petersburg, and although Peter the Great died a year before De L'isle arrived in St. Petersburg in 1726, he was successful in achieving both of his Imperial commissions. Together with his partner Ivan Kirilov they founded the school of Astronomy and began the immense task of surveying the Russian Empire. Eventually the two men parted company and Kirilov decided to publish his own incomplete atlas of Russia in 1734, eleven years before De L'isle's French team finished its more comprehensive work.
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