The Russian Empire 1450–1801

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Map 1.

Vegetation zones, Russian empire

c.

1790. Modeled on a map from Allen F. Chew,

An Atlas of Russian History: Eleven Centuries of

Changing Borders

, rev. edn. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970), map 35.