Reconstruction of the boundary line of the dacha of village Rasskazovo with country-sides according to an archival source of 1811

Abstract

On the basis of a written document from the early 19th century, the boundary line of the dacha of the village Rasskazovo was reconstructed. The purpose of this research is to decipher the Boundary Book of 1811, present its text in electronic form, and reconstruct the boundary line of the dacha of village Rasskazovo with country-sides on a modern map based on data obtained during decoding. In the process of deciphering the document, the use of Excel spreadsheets made it possible to reduce the need for manual text entry from the keyboard and thereby greatly speed up and facilitate the process of processing the document. The initial experience of drawing a boundary line on a modern map led to the conclusion that the magnetic declination was not taken into account when surveying and compiling the Boundary Book. Later, as part of this study, a VBA Excel macro was developed that allows you to automatically build a boundary line according to the data of the Boundary Book, organized accordingly in an electronic table, against the background of a map inserted into the worksheet of the Excel book. The conclusion about the absence of corrections for magnetic declination during surveying and compiling the Boundary Book, as well as the VBA Excel macro developed in the framework of this work, can be applied in similar studies of other similar documents.