Welcome to the Imperiia Project!

For full documentation and discussion of the materials presented here, go to the project website (http://imperiia.fas.harvard.edu/)

In a Nutshell

The purpose of this project is to promote the study of Russia's spatial history. To that end it aims to make available a range of historical maps, databases related to demographics, cultural institutions, and economy, assist instructors in bringing interactive engagement with maps and geographical information into the history classroom, and encourage conversation among researchers, instructors and students interested in the spatial history of the empire.

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Recent Updates

July 2016: updates to all layers from the Piadyshev atlas

*Coming January 2017*

Atlas analysis layers

Project Team

This project is directed and edited by Kelly O'Neill (Associate Professor of History, Harvard U). The work of the following contributors/editors has been invaluable: Rachel Koroloff, Greg Afinogenov, Naomi Berkowitz, Jordan Bryant, Jessica Peyton, Alexander Tedeschi, Ed Hicks, Christine Jacobson.

Work on the Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire, which is in many ways the centerpiece of the project, was made possible thanks to the mind-boggling talents of MadMappers, who performed a georeferencing miracle, and the expertise of many at the Center for Geographic Analysis (Harvard).

The project has received generous support from the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the History Department.

Questions and comments are most welcome: contact Kelly O'Neill, koneill@fas.harvard.edu.

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