The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 · THE MAP IN MAR 1881

Map of the Russian Empire in March 1881

The Tsar assassinated

The Russian Empire in March 1881: The Tsar assassinated. The map shows who held what: The Tsarist empire, Foreign powers & intervention.

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Map of the Russian Empire in March 1881: The Tsar assassinated. Colours show The Tsarist empire, Foreign powers & intervention. — MAR 1881 · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), volume 10 — Pale of Settlement map · C. Perron / Élisée Reclus — Russian Encroachments in Turkestan (1884)

Source details

Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), volume 10 — Pale of Settlement map. Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
C. Perron / Élisée Reclus — Russian Encroachments in Turkestan (1884). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.

Imperial borders use dated political outlines. The 1856/1878 Bessarabian settlement and Kars–Batum acquisition are corrected from the published atlas. Turkmen acquisitions follow the 1884 Reclus map, with Merv entering only after 1884.

reconstruction: 1881.17 · trace: 1878 settlement, mapped in 1912 · trace: 1881.17 · trace: 1901 source used as the closest provincial reference for 1881–1891 · vector: 1881.17

Layer records and reconstruction methods

On the ground

The Transcaspian region, conquered after Geok Tepe in 1881
The Pale of Settlement, the area where most of the empire’s Jews were required to live

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