Figures Text boxes Preface Acknowledgements Note on transliteration and place names 1 Introduction: geographical endeavour in early modern Russia 2 Russian geographical endeavour before Peter the Great (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) 3 'The Great Designs of the Tsar': the era of Peter the Great (c. 1694-1725) 4 The post-Petrine period: the Academy of Sciences, the 1745 Atlas and the Great Northern Expedition (1725-1762) 5 The era of Catherine the Great (1762-1796): a new age of imperial expansion 6 Widening horizons: geographical endeavour at the end of the 'long eighteenth century' (1796-1825) 7 Conclusion Glossary References Index.