Partie Septentrionale de la Russie Européenne

Title

Partie Septentrionale de la Russie Européenne

Description

Map shows the northern, european part of Russia with Lettland and Estland.

ca. 1749

Artist

Vaugondy,de (1723-1786)

Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723 -1786) also known as Le Sieur or Monsieur Robert, and his son, were leading cartographers in France during the 18th century. In 1757, Gilles and Didier Robert De Vaugondy published The Atlas Universel, one of the most important atlases of the 18th century. To produce the atlas, the Vaugondys integrated older sources with more modern surveyed maps. They verified and corrected the latitude and longitude of many regional maps in the atlas with astronomical observations. The older material was revised with the addition of many new place names. In 1760, Didier Robert de Vaugondy was appointed geographer to Louis XV. Gilles and Didier Robert De Vaugondy produced their maps and terrestrial globes working together as father and son. Globes of a variety of sizes were made by gluing copperplate-printed gores on a plaster-finished papier-mache core, a complicated and expensive manufacturing process, employing several specialists. In some cases it is uncertain whether Gilles or Didier made a given map. Gilles often signed maps as M.Robert, while Didier commonly signed his maps as ""Robert de Vaugondy"", or added ""fils"" or ""filio"" after his name. The Robert de Vaugondys were descended from the Nicolas Sanson family through Sanson's grandson, Pierre Moulard-Sanson. From him, they inherited much of Sanson's cartographic material, which they combined with maps and plates acquired after Hubert Jaillot's death in 1712 to form the basis the Atlas Universel.

Historical Description

The Northwest Federal District is an administrative unit in Russia. The administrative center is Saint Petersburg. Northwest Russia covers the north of Russia from the Ural Mountains in the east to the Kola Peninsula in the northwest, as well as the far west of the European part of the Russian Federation, bordering the Baltic Sea, the White Sea and the Arctic Ocean. It should be emphasized that northwestern Russia has by far the largest intact wilderness regions in Europe. The Federal District of Northwest Russia plays an important role in the economic life of Russia - both because of its geographical location and because of its special economic structure. Mechanical engineering, chemical, light and food industries, as well as petroleum industry, forestry and fishing are traditionally the most important industries of the district.