1878 Ethnographic map of the European part of the Russian…

1878 Ethnographic map of the European part of the Russian Empire.

Lithograph, colored, Ethnographic map of Russia by Lieutenant Aleksandr
Fyodorovich Rittikh. Printed by C.Hellfahrth in Gotha. 1 map on 2 sheets
98 x 64, sheets 56 x 67. Originally published in St. Petersburg, the
Russian title of the map is: Ethnografischeskaia karta Europeiskoi
Rossi. The map exhibited the gradual absorption of the minor
nationalities of the great Russian race, and showed the vast empire will
be inhabited by one people speaking the same language. Map includes
legend and color coded key to the various ethnic groups. Rittikh
produced an atlas of Russian ethnography in about 1878. As noted in the
May 18, 1878 edition of The Saturday Review of Politics, LIterature,
Science and Art (Vol 45, p. 639): The last part of Petermann’s
Geogrnphische Mittlmilungen’ is devoted to the ethnography of Russia,
and contains a reproduction of Rittich’s recent atlas of Russian
ethnography.