Maps of Russian Territories

*Added/updated 27 Jun 2025

1829 - Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland

This atlas by Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev (1758-1835) appears in several repositories on the internet, including earlier versions which were corrected in this 1829 version. These are georeferenced (searchable by coordinates and current place names) on the David Rumsey Map Collection website. The full atlas can be viewed there as well. Those maps shown here are the provinces that make up what is considered the Black Sea region, although some of these would not have German settlements until the mid-1800s.

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	Liebental District 1803 Contributor: Jana Egge/Matt Klee/Merv Weiss
	Kherson District and Black Sea Region - 1835 Contributor: Dale Wahl Collection Baldwin and Cradock, 47 Paternoster Row, London, under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
	Schematic map of German land ownership in Kherson Governorate in 1890 [Schemakarte des deutschen Landbesitzes im Gouvernment Cherson im Jahre 1890] Source: German Captured Documents Collection, Reports from Ethnic German Communities in Ukraine 1940-44. FamilySearch, FHL#: 8878483, images 435 and 436. Legend German Colonies/Villages on map
	Kustenländer des Schwarzen Meeres - 1852 (Coastal Countries of the Black Sea 1852) Contributor: Dale Wahl Collection Stahlstich (Direction v. Kleinknecht) aus der Schweinfurter Geographischen Gravieranstalt des Bibliographischen Instituts zu Hildburghausen, Amsterdam, u. Philiadelphia
	1855 - Atlas of the Evangelical Lutheran Communities in Russia In this image, four pages of the atlas were stitched together to show the title, small overview map of European Russia, and the four provinces of South Russia: Bessarabien (Bessarabia), Cherson (Kherson), Jekaterinoslaw (Ekaterinoslav) and Taurien (Taurida). Source: David Rumsey Map Collection
	German Settlement Map Contributor: Pius Waldman Permission to post granted by T. C. Wenzlaff family
	Northwestern Russia -1897 Contributor: Murray Gauer (The Century Atlas; Russia, Western & Southern Part; The Century Co.; New York, NY ©1897)
	Southwestern Russia - 1897 Contributor: Murray Gauer (The Century Atlas; Russia, Western & Southern Part; The Century Co.; New York, NY ©1897)
	Crimea Source: Heimatbuch 1963, Landmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland
	Crimean Villages Map Details regarding map by Kenneth Vollmann
	Molotschna Source: Heimatbuch 1963, Landmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland
	Chortitza Source: 1954 Heimat Kalender
	*Taurida Source: Jean-Claude Dezauche 1788