Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613-1825

by Denis J. B. Shaw

Reconnoitring Russia examines Russia's contribution to Europe's Great Age of Discovery and Exploration. Focusing on such geographical practices as exploring, observing, describing, mapping and similar activities, it explains how Russia's rulers and its educated public came to know and understand the territory of their expanding state and empire.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800085923
• ISBN13: 9781800085923
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Length: 222 Pages