LAND SURVEYING HAND WRITTEN PLANS IN THE STOCKS OF THE
MANUSCRIPT DEPARTMENT OF THE RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY The
manuscript department of the Russian State Library is in
possession of a unique collection embracing both archival
materials and hand written books, music manuscript, maps.
According to the make-up of the holdings of the department the
cartographic materials are incorporated either into personal
stocks or into the stocks of solitary additions, which hampers
the search. Hand written cartographic items in need of scholarly
study, description and organization have been picked out of the
unprocessed archival materials of the manuscript department.
They are maps, plans, atlases, drawings, side views. The stock
is stamped with subject variety since there are general
geographic and topographical maps, maps and plans of universal
land surveying, military maps, plans of towns and fortresses,
hydrographic, historical, ethnographic maps there. They derive
from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th centur