1878 ethnographic map of European Russia - by Aleksandr Fyodorovich Rittikh
‘I recognize Volga Germans, Bessarabia Germans and Crimean Germans
Germans were a significant minority in almost all parts of Eastern Europe’
Finnish dialects and minority languages in Finland, 1935
‘I didn’t expect Finland to have so many dialects’
1834 map of Russia and Poland - by John Arrowsmith
‘Interesting seeing Nowy Targ as Neumarkt
Also worth noting that Poland wasn’t entirely under Tsarist rule, but also Habsburg and German states’
River basins of Finland
‘I love the shape of Finland … I too, enjoy testicles.
Wait…’
River basins of Scandinavia and the Baltic states
‘Out of Nordics, Sweden has the largest lake (Vänern; 5545km²) and Finland the second-largest (Saimaa, 4400km²). These are the largest and second-largest lakes in Europe (excluding Russia’s Ladoga; 18130km² and Onega 9700km²). Finland used to have half Ladoga before WW2. The Caspian Sea (371000km²) is in Asia and is the largest lake in the world … This guy lakes’
The Dogs of Scandinavia (1892)
‘The reason Norway is muffled by the Swedish dog there is that Norway was under a Union with sweden at that time and had no say in foreign matters’–Tronderbart
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