Map of the Far East

rare map including, Corea, Japan and China, prepared by Leonid Ivanovich Borodovsky, (1870-1906) and published in 1904. This folding map has several insets, one with Taiwan. The map was published with an alphabetical index of geographical names on the map.

Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military topographic depot, then at the quartermaster general of the main headquarters.
Borodovsky Leonid (1870 - 1906) served as an officer in eastern Siberia, made several trips to the edge of the Ussuri, the south-eastern Mongolia, Korea, China, Japan and East Turkestan, participated in the expedition of Colonel Putyata in southern Khingan. Later he served in the Ministry of Finance. In 1900, Mr.. committed to trade and scientific purpose of a trip to Kashgar. Drafted by a map of Manchuria withstood several publications, in addition, they issued a series of maps relating to the Far East, as well as the map of China, applied to the Russian edition of Parker's work, "China".

Ilyin's name is associated with the emergence and development of the first privately-owned cartographic establishment in Russia. He began his activity with the discovery in 1859 in St. Petersburg. Together with Colonel Poltoratsky lithography, which has now grown into the famous Ilyin cartographic institution.
The company has published a large number of geographical and statistical maps, atlases, wall maps of all parts of the world and European countries for educational institutions, as well as a detailed atlas of the Russian Empire, etc.
At many international exhibitions, Ilyin’s maps were awarded along with the works of Justus Perthes’ Gothic company.

Imperial Russia’s expansion lasted from the 1850s to the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. Russian colonization took several loosely related forms: geographic expeditions, border-demarcation, and map-making. Grand narratives of Russian expansion beyond Siberia often overlook the role of these as independent agents of colonization, but they are examined in the following pages.
Russian geographic expeditions collected the knowledge of the geography, natural conditions, and people that was necessary to conquer those regions. Border demarcation and new maps helped legitimize the territorial conquest and created new knowledge about these areas.

A closer look at these colonization processes reveals the weakness of Imperial Russia’s new frontiers in East Asia and the gap between the ideology of expansionism and developments on the ground. Russian colonization was driven by several economic incentives, including the need to establish an agricultural base for the development of Siberia, to protect Russian economic and territorial gains in the North Pacific, and to find new trade routes to Asian markets.

This colonization went through several stages: Russia’s annexation of the area north of Amur River and east of Ussuri River (1850–60); a period of relative peace (1860–95); and Russia’s advance into Manchuria (1895–1904).