
Original image at: Tobolsk Museum of History, Architecture, and Preservationġ photograph : 12.5 x 9.3 cm bumaga, akvarelʹ, t︠s︡vetnoĭ karandash. Topics: cartography, russia, history, maps, general research division, materialy po istorii russkoi kartografii, dlia italianskago perevoda zapisok, karta rossii. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Tobolsk, Russia :, vtorai︠a︡ polovina XIX veka. Download Image of Karta Rossii Gerbershteina, gravirivannaia na derevie Ia.Gastaldo dlia italianskago perevoda Zapisok o Moskovii, Venetiis, 1550. Znamenskiĭ, Mikhail Stepanovich, 1833-1892. Founded in 1870 as the Tobolsk Provincial Museum, the museum is one of the oldest in Siberia. The collection is held in the Tobolsk Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve and was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project in the early 2000s. Together, the illustrations in the collection give a portrait of the people of and physical conditions in West Siberia in the second half of the 19th century. It includes drawings of artifacts from archaeological finds in the territory of West Siberia, sketches of nature, people, and cities, a few maps, and several satirical albums with caricatures and humorous sketches of everyday life of the people. The collection reflects almost all aspects of his work.

From the West Siberian city of Tobolsk, Znamenskii was a well-known local historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, artist, and master of satirical prints and drawings. The image presented here is from a collection of 239 drawings and illustrations made by the 19th century Siberian artist Mikhail Stepanovich Znamenskii(1833-92) between 18.
