Wittgenstein

STUDIES OF THE FORTIFICATIONS OF THE TOWN OF KAMIANKA (DNISTROVA) ACCORDING TO THE lesser-KNOWN MAP OF THE PODILIS PROVINCE OF 1844 BY A. FITINGOFF

The authors for the first time put into scientific circulation an unique source of historical cartography - a military topographic map of the Podillia province in 1841-1847 by Major General A. Fittinghof (from the corps of military topographers of the Russian Empire). The map is unique source in that it reflects the condition of many Podilian settlements before the regulation and reconstruction of the 19th-20th centuries, which distorted the historical buildings, captures the relics of fortifications in towns and castles. The scale of the map is 200 soot.