There is a small map of Simbirsk Province enclosed in a wooden frame with a folder on the wall in Ilya Ulyanov’s study. It was typographically printed at the cartographic Establishment of Alexey Ilyin in St. Petersburg.
These maps were usually appended to Commemorative Books and Address-Calendars, which were issued in each province as travel guides. The authors provided general and historical information and information about the employees. This map was a supplement to the Official Directory of Simbirsk Governorate in 1869, the year the Ulyanovs arrived in Simbirsk.

The eldest daughter, Anna Ulyanova-Elizarova recalled:

The map of Simbirsk Province is drawn to an average scale: 20 versts per inch, or 8.4 kilometers per centimeter. It is a political and administrative map by the content. It depicts the borders of neighboring provinces in turquoise dashed lines and the borders of counties in green dashed lines. The map also shows roads, forests, rivers, lakes, springs, swamps, and woodless areas. The relief is marked with hatching.

There is a small inset map with a plan of the main provincial city of Simbirsk in the lower-left corner. On it, the compiler left the main streets unnamed, but showed major thoroughfares, such as ‘From Kazan’, ‘From Moscow’, and ‘From Saratov’.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Simbirsk Governorate covered 49,500 square kilometers or 43,491 square versts. It bordered in the north with Kazan Province, in the south with Saratov Governorate, in the east with the Volga River, separating it from Samara Governorate, and in the west with Penza and Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.
From 1851 to 1920, Simbirsk Governorate consisted of eight counties with county centers of the same name: Alatyrsky, Ardatovsky, Buinsky, Karsunsky, Kurmyshsky, Sengileyevsky, Simbirsky, and Syzransky.

On the map from the collection of the house-museum, the borders of the provinces and districts were additionally outlined in red watercolour, probably at a later date. This partially altered the structure of the administrative boundaries of the Simbirsk Governorate, distorting its eastern border.