Old Map of Ukraine, 1770 - Kiev Governate, Russian Empire - Kremenchuk, Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Cities, War Size:48x60in (120x150cm) A crisscross of railways feature

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Old Map of Ukraine, 1770 - Kiev Governate, Russian Empire - Kremenchuk, Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Cities, War Size:48x60in (120x150cm) A crisscross of railways featureA gorgeous map of the Kiev Governorate (Guberniya), originally published in 1770 by Jakob Friedrich Schmidt of St Petersburg. At the time Kiev was mostly an autonomous region, but 5 years later in 1775 Catherine the Great of Russia would abolish its autonomy and fully absorb the region as part of the Russian Empire. Fast forward a couple of centuries, of course, and the region's geopolitics are once again very complicated. This is one of the most, if