Carte de la Russie d’Europe: avec…la Prusse, le Grand Duche de Varsovie.., 1812

description

Carte de la Russie d'Europe: avec...la Prusse, le Grand Duche de Varsovie...

Paris, dissected into 48 sections and mounted on cloth, 166 cm x 167 cm / 5.4 x 5.5 feet. The map was
prepared in anticipation of Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia, and was based on Russian
surveys smuggled out of the official Russian map depository in St. Petersburg.

Year

1812

Author

Pierre Lapie (geogrpher/
publisher)

P.A.F. Tardieu (engraver)