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4 juillet 2018
- handle: 10670/1.mnhit0
- isbn: 9781783743735
- eisbn: 9791036509681
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John Randolph, « 5. Communication and Obligation: The Postal System of the Russian Empire, 1700–1850 », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.mnhit0
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In 1854, the Imperial Russian Historical Society published a portrait, in numbers, of Russia’s postal system. 3,950 relay stations, the Society reported, formed the system’s spine. Mail couriers, imperial officials, and even private travellers could find at these “posts” all manner of travel necessities—above all, fresh drivers and draft animals. The stations were spaced at intervals, along some 85,000 versts (roughly 90,500 kilometres) of relay roads. 16,510 mail couriers rode these routes w...