RUSSIAN DOROZHNIKI AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS OF THE 15-TH – 16-TH CENTURIES
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The article is devoted to Russian geographical and cartographical culture of the 15-th – the 16-th centuries. The author compares the West European diplomat’s and traveler’s drafts and geographical data of the 16-th century Russia with analogical native sources. On the base on analyze of Russian sources the author supposes that Dorozhniki were collections of the drafts of different territories with descriptions. The author comes to the conclusion that a strategical information was contained in this collections and the collections were composed for official use only. The author insists that tradition of composing of the geographical surveys has already formed in Russia of the 16-th century and the level of developing of the geographical knowledge was rather high in Russia of the end of the 15-th – 16-th century.Downloads
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2023-05-16
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