[WALL MAP OF THE RAILWAYS, POSTAL ROADS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE] Karta parokhodnikh' soovshesnii jel'znikh i pochtovikh' dorog' Rossiiskoi Imperii.; Aziiatskaia Rossiia Sibir' i Turkestanski Krai. [= A map of railways and postal roads of the Russian Empire]

Published by A[LEXEI] A[FINOGENOVICH] ILYIN, (1832-1889)., A. A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment, St. Petersburg, 1889. Original chromolithographed map on cloth, dissected into 32 sections, and laid on linen as originally issued. Folded. A clear and very good copy. Large double elephant folio. (124 x 84 cm). In Russian. Scale: 1,200,000. A large-format and highly detailed rare wall map detailing the transportation networks within Russia during the late-1880s, the authoritative map by the firm of A. Ilyin, then Russia's foremost producer of Russian Cartography. The bottom of the map features a large inset detailing the neighborhoods of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and Asiatic Russia with Turkestan borders. The main map embraces European Russia, while detailed insets depict: the lands to the east of the Caspian Sea (today in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), the Vladivostok region (in the Russian Far East), the environs of St. Petersburg, the Moscow region, the lands south of t