Online version of the Lida Castle audio guide
Makovsky map (copy)
Map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1613-1630 (?) years.
The initiator of its creation was one of the richest tycoons of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - Nikolai Kryshtof Radziwill (Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł) (nicknamed “the Orphan”).
The work on collecting materials and publishing the map took place in the late XVI - early XVII centuries in Nesvizh. The drawing and decoration of the map was made by the famous engraver Thomas Makovsky (Tomasz Makowski).
The full version of the map consists of two parts: the map itself and the map of tthe lower course of the Dnieper River with rapids. In total, 1039 settlements are marked on the map, including 544 within the borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of which 342 are directly on the territory of Belarus.
All inscriptions are in Latin, most of them are historical information, comments on settlements, etc. This is the first large-scale (1:1300000) map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
The initiator of its creation was one of the richest tycoons of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - Nikolai Kryshtof Radziwill (Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł) (nicknamed “the Orphan”).
The work on collecting materials and publishing the map took place in the late XVI - early XVII centuries in Nesvizh. The drawing and decoration of the map was made by the famous engraver Thomas Makovsky (Tomasz Makowski).
The full version of the map consists of two parts: the map itself and the map of tthe lower course of the Dnieper River with rapids. In total, 1039 settlements are marked on the map, including 544 within the borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of which 342 are directly on the territory of Belarus.
All inscriptions are in Latin, most of them are historical information, comments on settlements, etc. This is the first large-scale (1:1300000) map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.