Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov drawing book of Siberia. The meaning of Remezov Semyon Ulyanovich in a brief biographical encyclopedia

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As shining example we will give a photograph of the tablet placed in the local history museum of the city of Khabarovsk under old map from the "Drawing Book of Siberia" by S.U. Remezov, fig.11.65. Photo courtesy of G.A. Khrustalev:

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Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov - Russian cartographer and historian of the 17th century. His geographical atlas of 23 maps "The Drawing Book of Siberia" dates from 1699-1701, p.1114. The museum plate, fig. 11.65, says that on the map of S. U. Remezov<<в устье Амура дано обозначение города с башнями и колоколами, а также подпись: "ДО СЕГО МЕСТА ЦАРЬ АЛЕКСАНДР МАКЕДОНСКИЙ ДОХОДИЛ И РУЖЬЕ СПРЯТАЛ И КОЛОКОЛА ОСТАВИЛ">>. Under the "gun", most likely, they meant guns, weapons in general.

Then we managed to find this map of Remezov in the excellent facsimile edition of his Atlas.
This is how the indicated inscription on the map looks like, fig.11.65a, fig.11.65b.

fig.11.65b. Enlarged selected fragment of the map with the inscription:

From a modern point of view, this old inscription sounds wild. You won't say otherwise. After all, the campaign of the "ancient" Alexander the Great at the mouth of the distant taiga Amur is out of the question in Scaligerian history. Especially with cannons and bells. A modern historian will condescendingly say: what to take from an uneducated Remezov. Right history he did not know. True, somehow he managed to compile a wonderful atlas of Siberia. But at the same time, he was "incorrectly fantasizing." Don't take his "historical fantasies" seriously.

However, in our reconstruction, Remezov's information is quite meaningful and plausible. Since Tsar Alexander the Great (partially Suleiman the Magnificent) lived in the XV-XVI centuries, in the era of the great Ottoman = Ataman conquest. The waves of which have reached Far East. Including China and Japan. As a result, samurai = Samarans = Samaritans appeared in Japan. See the book "Biblical Rus'".

Regarding Remezov's map, we note an interesting circumstance. This map (based, perhaps, on some earlier "Mongolian" map) hung on the wall of the Yekateringof Palace in St. Petersburg. Here is what the historian of the 19th century M.I. Pylyaev reports.<<На лестнице, ведущей на нижний этаж, на стене, вместо обоев, висит большая на холсте карта Азиатской России. КАРТА НАПИСАНА ВИДИМО ДЛЯ ШУТКИ: вряд ли найдутся реки в учебниках с такими названиями, как здесь; на карте также и страны света поменялись местами: вверху море Индейское и Песчаное, внизу север и Ледовитое море, Акиан (sic!), к западу Камчатка и царство Гилянское на берегу реки Амура, С КУРЬЕЗНОЙ НАДПИСЬЮ: "до сего места Александр Македонский доходил, ружье спрятал, колокол оставил". По преданию, по этой карте Петр экзаменовал ради смеха нетвердо знающих географию>> , p.82.

Thus, in the time of Peter the map, which preserved traces of the former geography and names of the Asian part of the Great = "Mongolian" Empire, was still in the palace. But, having already been brought up on the "new" Scaligerian-Millerian history, Peter and his courtiers treated the map only as a curiosity. In the same way, the historian of the 19th century, M.I. Pylyaev, jokes about it. Without suspecting that, most likely, this map corresponded to reality better than the Scaligerian geography introduced into the minds not so long ago. Today, Remezov's map "The Drawing of the Greater Entire Siberia" is sometimes exhibited in the Petrovsky Gallery of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, p.24.

Lit .: Drawing book of Siberia, compiled by the Tobolsk boyar son Semyon Remezov in 1701, St. Petersburg, 1882; Goldenberg L. A., Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov - Siberian cartographer and geographer, M., 1965:

The "Drawing Book of Siberia" by Semyon Remezov and his three sons can be safely called the first Russian geographical atlas. It consists of a preface and 23 large-format maps, covering the entire territory of Siberia and distinguished by the abundance and detail of information. The book contains handwritten drawings of the lands: the City of Tobolsk and suburbs with streets, Tobolsk city, Tara city, Tyumen city, Turin prison, Vekhotursky city, Pelymsky city, and other cities and environs.
DRAWING BOOK OF SIBERIA"
first Russian. geographical atlas, summarizing the results of geographic. discoveries in the 17th century. Jan 10 1696 By Siberian order, royal letters were sent to all cities of Siberia on the preparation of detailed drawings covering the explored territory. the edges. In 1696-97, in Tobolsk, Irkutsk, and other cities, drawings were drawn up for various cities and districts of Siberia. Drawings Zap. Siberia and the atlas of the Siberian rivers, so-called. "Chorographic Book" compiled by S. U. Remezov (170 sheets, kept in Stockholm).

In the autumn of 1695, while in Moscow, Remezov created a number of drawings and made copies of maps sent there from Siberia. In 1699-1701, Remezov, together with his sons Semyon, Leonty and Ivan, created the "Ch. to. S." in Tobolsk. It was made on 24 sheets and contained a Preface ("Scripture to the affectionate reader") and 23 maps: a drawing of Tobolsk, 18 drawings of districts covering the entire territory. Siberia, drawing of the Mongolian "anhydrous and impassable stone steppe", general drawing Siberia, drawing of the north of Europe. parts of Russia, ethnographic. map of Siberia. "Ch. to. S." did not have a mathematical bases, was made without a degree network and focused not on the north, but on the south. Despite this, "Ch. to. S." represented means. achievement of early Russian. cartography. The original "Ch. to. S." stored in Moscow in the State. library to them. V. I. Lenin.

In 1701. Remezov Semyon Ulyanovich. Drawing book of Siberia

“Siberia is a land of grain, vegetables and cattle, besides honey and grapes, nothing is scarce.

The author of the "Drawing Book" is Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov, a cartographer, geographer, artist, ethnographer, architect, builder of the only stone Kremlin in Siberia in Tobolsk, compiler of the first Siberian atlases and numerous drawings of Siberia.

Remezov devoted several years to work on the cartography of Siberia. The course of his work is described in detail by himself in "Scripture to the Affectionate Reader" (preface to the "Drawing Book of Siberia"). Unfortunately, only one of them, dating back to 1701, has survived. This year, Remezov, with the help of his sons, compiled a "Drawing Book of Siberia" on 23 sheets. This atlas, with a preface to it by the author himself, was published by the Archaeographic Commission in 1882 in St. Petersburg. On the first page of the "Drawing Book" there is a plan of Tobolsk, then - 18 maps of lands subordinate to Siberian cities or prisons from Verkhoturye and Tobolsk to Yakutsk and Nerchinsk; then "Drawing of the land of a waterless and impassable stone steppe", that is, the steppes adjacent to Siberia in the southwest; further - a summary map of all Siberia called "Drawing of all Siberian cities and lands"; a map of the Great Perm and Pechora coasts and, finally, a map of the distribution of foreign tribes. Although Remezov drew maps in "church size" and by compass, he still had no idea about the geographic network, and instead of it the hydrographic network served him.

Remezov distinguishes three kinds of main sources that he used in drawing up the drawings: the old Siberian drawings, geographical manuscripts, and surveys of knowledgeable people. But the main source of information was a specially conducted reconnaissance and survey of the area. For the first time in the history of world and domestic science, Remezov's atlas gave a reliable historical, geographical and cartographic description of Siberia. The informativeness of the “Drawing Book of Siberia” still surprises. The vast coverage of the territory is combined with the detail of the terrain, the amount of historical and geographical information is unprecedented for ancient Russian cartography - the atlas contains about 7000 geographical names. For the first time in history, the dense river network of Siberia received a correct cartographic display. Forests, relief, zoogeographical details, mineral deposits are plotted on the maps, much attention is paid to ethnographic data and characteristics of the peoples inhabiting Siberia.
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Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov(1642, Tobolsk, Russian kingdom - after 1721, ibid) - Russian encyclopedist of Siberia - cartographer, architect, builder, historian, artist, writer.

Remezov entered the history of Russia primarily as a cartographer. He compiled three unique atlases - "Chorographic Drawing Book" - the original:: Gufton Library, Harvard College Library N59-2045, published by The Atlas of Siberia by Semyon U.Remesov. Facsimile edition with an introduction by Leo Bagrow. s`Gravenhage, 1957, "Drawing book of Siberia 1701" - original: Department of Manuscripts of the RSL (Moscow), Rumyantsev Collection N346, published: "Drawing book of Siberia, compiled by the son of the boyar Semyon Remezov in 1701", St. Petersburg, 1882, and "Service drawing book" - original: Department of Manuscripts of the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg) Hermitage collection N237. All of them are the most valuable monuments of Russian cartography.

Biography

Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov, a native of Tobolsk, belonged to the social category of boyar children. Both his grandfather and his father were Tobolsk service people. His brother Nikita, served in Tobolsk in the children of the boyars. The father at the time of the birth of Semyon was a shooter centurion. In 1668, Semyon began his sovereign service as an ordinary Cossack in the Ishim jail (being under the command of his father, Ulyana Remezov). In 1682, Semyon Ulyanovich, for diligence in the service, finally receives the title of son of a boyar and is transferred to his native Tobolsk, entering the sovereign's service. By that time, Semyon Remezov already had three sons - Leonty, Semyon and Ivan.

The activities of S. U. Remezov are extremely diverse. He took part in repulsing the raids of nomadic tribes from the territory of modern Kazakhstan, in clashes with non-peaceful Vogulichs and Tatars, collected yasak, founded new villages, and conducted a population census. In 1689, Remezov was certified by the Tobolsk governor A.P. Golovin as an experienced draftsman. In 1693 he tries his hand at icon painting. In 1695, Remezov designed emblems for seven regimental banners, and then made the banners themselves with his own money. Perhaps some of them are kept among those that were sent to Moscow from Tobolsk at the beginning of the 19th century and until recently were known as "Yermak's banners."

Remezov became the architect and construction manager of the only stone Kremlin in Siberia, in his hometown of Tobolsk. To do this, in 1697, together with his son Semyon Remezov Jr., he was previously sent to Moscow. In the Siberian Prikaz, Remezov got acquainted with rich cartographic material, in the Armory he studied "the structure of stone affairs." At the end of 1698, Remezov left for Tobolsk, having received an order "to be at the entire stone building." He drew up plans for the stone fortifications of the city, calculated the estimate of work, and personally supervised the construction. Along the way, he was engaged in the search for lime, ensured the extraction of clay, the construction of kilns for firing bricks and their production, was responsible for supplying workers, supplying wooden piles, looking for high-quality sand and rubble stone.

Semyon Remezov was always interested in the dramatic events of the annexation of Siberia. He outlined his developments on this subject in the richly illustrated Remezov Chronicle, consisting of the Siberian History and the Brief Siberian Chronicle of Kungur. The second part in historiography is sometimes called the Remezov Chronicle (part as a whole), the Tobolsk Chronicle, the Brief Siberian Chronicle, and, of course, the Kungur Chronicle. It is believed that this anonymous work was acquired by Remezov in 1703, in Kungur. Remezov is the author of the works “On the Borders and Boundaries of All Siberia”, “Assimilation of the Siberian Countries”, “Description of Siberia”, “Census Book of Tobolsk” (1710) and others. Historical-toponymic and ethnographic-geographical problems of the origin of the peoples of Siberia are considered by Remezov in the "Description of the Siberian peoples and the boundaries of their lands" (1697-98).

In 1703, Remezov, together with his son Leonty, compiled a "Drawing of the land of the Kungur city", in order to facilitate the construction of waterways for the transportation of Ural iron to the central regions of the country. Therefore, here Remezov pays special attention to waterways- rivers and gives them detailed description. However, he does not lose sight of other elements of natural and economic characteristics- the drawing shows in detail the vegetation and relief of the Kungur district. During a business trip in 1703, Remezov explored the Kungur cave. And in Kungur, he made the most valuable bibliographic find ...

Tobolsk boyar son, chronicler and cartographer of Siberia, lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Thanks to the latter, she, in addition to her historical significance, deserves attention as a curious cultural monument of that time.

In 1849, Nebolsin published it, along with other chronicles, in his book: "The Conquest of Siberia". The chronicle of Remezov begins with data on Yermak from 1577, describes his campaign, the beginning of which the author refers to 1579, when Kuchum died; then in st. 135 speaks of the establishment under Archbishop Nectarios of the church custom - to proclaim eternal memory Yermak and his team; further, from 136 st. and to the end the chronicle sets out various moralizing considerations about the great event - the conquest of Siberia by Yermak.

This chronicle differs significantly from the Stroganovskaya and Esipovskaya, both in the sometimes more detailed presentation of the facts, and in the presentation of many events in a completely different form compared to the one in which they appear in the first two, older chronicles.

So, the chronicle ascribes the initiative of the campaign to Yermak and his comrades; M. Stroganov was only an unwitting supplier of supplies and weapons for Yermak's squad: due to the energetic demand and even threats from the atamans, Stroganov was forced to deliver everything necessary for the campaign to the Cossacks.

Another feature of the Remezov Chronicle is its chronology.

For the most part, the annual data are obviously not correct and are so confused that sometimes the earlier years appear after the later years, but, on the contrary, Remezov's monthly dates, often similar to Stroganov's, thereby prove that they are borrowed from some we do not know, but not completely unreliable sources.

This consideration allows us to use Remezov's chronicle as a source that supplements the Stroganov chronicle in some details about Yermak's campaign, but with great caution, since it is also undeniable that Remezov introduced many Russian and even foreign legends and legendary tales into his story.

For the first time, Remezov's chronicle was discovered in Tobolsk by G.F. Miller, who, not knowing the Stroganov Chronicle, treated it with great confidence and based his story about the conquest of Siberia on it.

Fischer and Prince M. M. Shcherbatov followed Miller in this respect.

Karamzin reacted negatively to it, Solovyov did not use it at all, although Nebolsin agrees with Karamzin that Remezov is not trustworthy, however, he admits that there are places in him where he makes the reader need to look at the subject from a different point of view.

In our century, Remezov found a follower in the person of P. A. Slovtsov, and at the very Lately D. I. Ilovaisky began to support the basic views of Remezov’s chronicle in his History of Russia (vol. III, Moscow. 1890, p. 389, and also note 70 to chapter X). Much more important were and are Remezov's works on the cartography of Siberia, to which he devoted a number of years. The course of his work is described in detail by himself in "Scripture to the Affectionate Reader" (i.e., the preface to the "Drawing Book of Siberia"); unfortunately, of all of them, only one, dating back to 1701, has survived. This year, Remezov, with the help of his sons, compiled a "Drawing Book of Siberia" on 23 sheets. This atlas with a preface to it (see above) by Remezov himself was published by the Archaeographic Commission in 1882 in St. Petersburg. On the first sheet of the "Book" there is a plan of Tobolsk, then -18 maps of lands subordinate to Siberian cities or prisons from Verkhoturye and Tobolsk to Yakutsk and Nerchinsk; then "Drawing of the land of a waterless and impassable stone steppe", that is, the steppes adjacent to Siberia in the southwest; further - a summary map of all Siberia called "Drawing of all Siberian cities and lands"; a map of the Great Perm and Pechora coasts and, finally, a map of the distribution of foreign tribes.

Although Remezov drew a map with "church size" and with a compass, he still had no idea about the geographic network, and instead of it the hydrographic network served him. His mapping of small facts was determined by the river network. From our point of view, Remezov's atlas is, of course, full of curiosities; so, parts of Siberia, the closer they are to Arctic Ocean, the relatively shorter and smaller, and Siberia itself came out quadrangular.

The rivers are finger-thick, the cities occupy several square miles, and so on. But in their time, even such maps must have been of great importance: having arisen from the needs of the central government, they could sufficiently satisfy the modern government, since, with the help of them, it could determine with approximate fidelity the position of known areas according to the cardinal points, which are indicated by magnetic arrow.

Everywhere the distances of places are also shown, calculated in days of travel, and near Tobolsk and versts; consequently, the government could already make a rough estimate of how long it would take for the decree to reach one or another area of ​​a remote colony.

On the other hand, the detail with which Remezov applied even minor facts, and his accuracy in the most populous places, gave his atlas the significance that from it, like from some other ancient works of this kind, something could be drawn to improve latest maps Russia.

At present, this monument is important in two respects: firstly, it contains data for the history of increasing knowledge of Russian people about the geography of the northern and Central Asia, and secondly, it presents rich material relating to the history of Russian colonization and distribution - greatly different from the current one - of foreign tribes in Siberia in the past. Remezov was not the first Siberian cartographer: he knew a number of drawings of his predecessors, which, however, he treats rather contemptuously.

These drawings, with the exception of one, have not survived to our time, and Remezov's atlas is therefore the only monument of Russian historical geography of its kind.

In addition to the drawings, Remezov's sources were: geographical manuscripts, i.e., various scribe, census, yasak books, article lists of embassies, and so on. and verbal inquiries and "tales" of experienced people. So, for example, the news has been preserved that Remezov used the famous V. Atlasov's "skask".

Atlas Remezov for a long time was considered lost.

Despite the fact that even A. Kh. Vostokov, in his well-known description of the Rumyantsev Museum, placed (on page 483) a preface to it (with some omissions), it was not until 1857 that Academician A.F. Middendorf, who appreciated it.

In addition to the chronicle, the original of which, given by G.F. Miller, is stored in the Library of the Imp. Academy of Sciences, and the atlas stored in the Rumyantsev Museum, another work by Remezov has come down to us: "The census book of households and people of the Tobolsk district", referring to 1710. It was compiled in great detail and curious in this regard, because it contains the hand-painted painting of Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov, who until recently was considered Emelyanovich.

Remezov, on the other hand, compiled a map, handed over, by the Highest command, in 1907 to the Imp. Russian Geographic Society from the Ekateringof Palace of Peter I. This map was executed as a result of the decree of the Siberian Order of January 10, 7204 (1696) G.-F. Miller.

Description of the Siberian kingdom, St. Petersburg. 1787, p. 31; P. Pekarsky.

History of Imp. Academy of Sciences, vol. I, St. Petersburg. 1870, p. 822; G. I. Spassky.

Chronicle Siberian-"Siberian Herald", part XIII, pp. 2-3; Karamzin.

History of the State. Russian, vol. IX, approx. 630; P. Nebolsin.

Chronological references on the 300th anniversary of the annexation of Siberia to the Russian State - "Journal of the Ministry of People.

Enlightenment." 1881, No. 9; Brief Siberian Chronicle, Rev. P. Morozov - "Ancient. and new. Russia" 1881, No. 1, pp. 149-164; Oksenov.

Siberian chronicles - "Vostochn.

Reviewed." 1883, No. 40; A. N. Pypin. History of Russian Ethnography, vol. IV, pp. 324-329; 336, 338; 343, 406; Dmitriev.

Perm Antiquity.

Issue. IV, pp. 32-33; 85-40, 63; Letter ac. A. F. Middendorf to the vice-chairman of the Imp. Russian Geographic Common (about Remezov's atlas) - "Bulletin of the Imperial Russian. Geogr. General." 1857, part XXI, book. V, Blend, pp. 1-4; A. F. Middendorf.

Journey to the north and east of Siberia, St. Petersburg. 1860, vol. I, pp. 38-39; "Drawing book of Siberia" - rec. G. N. Potanina - "Journal. Min. Narodn.

Prosv." 1883, No. 6, pp. 811-319; A. A. Golombievskiy, Inventory of drawings stored in the Discharge in the second half of the 17th century - "Description of documents and papers stored in the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice", book 6, section II, pp. 6-8, N. Ogloblin.

Review of columns and books of the Siberian Order, vol. I, pp. 78, 187, 214; N. Ogloblin.

Sources of the drawing book of Siberia - "Bibliographer" 1891, No. 1, pp. 2-11; N. Ogloblin.

To the biography of S. Remezov - "Bibliographer" 1892, pp. 334-335. Innokenty Sokolov. (Polovtsov) Remezov, Semyon Ulyanovich - Tobolsk boyar son, Siberian chronicler and geographer.

His "Short Siberian (or Kungur) chronicle" was first discovered by the famous Miller, when he was in Tobolsk.

Miller, followed by Fischer, added to this chronicle great importance; in the 19th century it was followed by the Siberian historian Slovtsov.

N. M. Karamzin was the first to deny its significance as a historical document;

Spassky says that she is "disfigured by infidelities and errors"; low opinion of the annals of R. and P. I. Nebolsin.

Published in 1882, ed. Timofeev, this chronicle consists of text and drawings; in addition to information about incidents, she reports a lot of data on the customs and lifestyle of the Siberian inhabitants; the story was brought to 1649. The chronicle was compiled at the very end of the 17th century by R., together with his sons Leonty, Semyon and Ivan.

Much more important are the "drawings" of R., the compilation of which was entrusted to him by the Moscow government in 1696-1700. A number of such drawings of the Siberian land is stored in the Moscow archive of the Ministry of Justice.

In 1701, R. compiled the "Drawing Book of Siberia", and used the same drawings, various kinds of handwritten books (scribe, census, sentinel, etc.), article lists and messages from knowledgeable persons (among other things, Vladimir Atlasov).

This book, otherwise called the Atlas, was published in St. Petersburg. archaeographic commission in 1882. See Art. Potanin in the "Journal of the Ministry of Public Education", 1883, No. 6. In the affairs of the Siberian order, N. N. Ogloblin found another work by R.: "The census book of Tobolsk, 1710", which lists in detail all the service and tenant population of the Tobolsk district, by villages.

Wed Gozdavo-Golombievskiy, "Inventory of drawings kept in the Discharge in the second half of the 17th century." ("Description of documents of the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice", vol. VI, 1889); N. N. Ogloblin, "Sources of the Drawing Book of Siberia" ("Bibliographer", 1891); his own, "To the biography of S. Remezov" (ib., 1892); his own, "Review of columns and cases of the Siberian order" ("Readings of the Moscow Society of Russian History and Antiquities", 1894, No. 2); Dmitriev, "Perm Antiquity" (Issue IV, Perm, 1892). V. R-v. (Brockhaus) Remezov, Semyon Ulyanovich (b. c. 1662 - d. c. 1716) - Russian. geographer, cartographer and historian of Siberia.

Tobolsk service man.

In 1696-97 he made a plan of a stone city in Tobolsk, a drawing of lands south of Tobolsk district, etc. In 1698, together with his son Semyon, he made in Moscow a "Drawing of all Siberia"; continuing to work with his sons Leonty, Semyon and Ivan, by the beginning of 1701 he completed the creation of the "Drawing Book of Siberia" (published in 1882), which summed up the existing geographical. materials of that time.

At the very end of the 17th century. R. and his sons, using the Esipovskaya and other chronicles, compiled the so-called Remezovskaya chronicle.

Lit .: Lebedev D. M., Geography in Russia during the time of Peter the Great, M.-L., 1950 Bakhrushin S. V., Essays on the history of the colonization of Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries, M., 1927 (pp. 169, 180) ; Andreev A.I., Essays on the source study of Siberia, XVII century, L., 1939.

Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov (1642, Tobolsk, Russian kingdom - after 1721, ibid.) - Russian encyclopedist of Siberia - cartographer, architect, builder, historian, artist, writer.

Remezov entered the history of Russia primarily as a cartographer. He compiled three unique atlases - "Chorographic Drawing Book" - the original:: Gufton Library, Harvard College Library N59-2045, published by The Atlas of Siberia by Semyon U.Remesov. Facsimile edition with an introduction by Leo Bagrow. s`Gravenhage, 1957, "Drawing book of Siberia 1701" - original: Department of Manuscripts of the RSL (Moscow), Rumyantsev Collection N346, published: "Drawing book of Siberia, compiled by the son of the boyar Semyon Remezov in 1701", St. Petersburg, 1882, and "Service drawing book" - original: Department of Manuscripts of the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg) Hermitage collection N237. All of them are the most valuable monuments of Russian cartography.

DRAWING BOOK OF SIBERIA

One of the earliest monuments of Russian cartography that has come down to us is “ Drawing book of Siberia”, compiled in 1699 - 1701 by the remarkable Russian geographer, cartographer and topographer S. U. Remezov and his sons. True, she saw the light only in 1882, when she was published by the Archaeological Commission. Of course, she had some conventionality of the image, there was no graticule, but the "drawing book" for the first time provided an opportunity to imagine the vast territory of Russia, the flow of rivers, settlements, information about the population of Siberia.

Handwritten " Drawing book of Siberia"(1699-1701) - the first Russian geographical atlas, summarizing the results of geographical discoveries of the 17th century. In 1695, S. Remezov made copies of maps sent to Moscow from Siberia and created a number of original drawings. In 1696-97, drawings were drawn up in Tobolsk, Irkutsk and other cities different parts Siberia. Blueprints Western Siberia and the atlas of Siberian rivers was compiled by Remezov himself. In 1699-1701, he, with his three sons, created " Drawing book of Siberia”, which consisted of a preface and 23 large-format maps covering the entire territory of Siberia and distinguished by an abundance and detail of information. The maps of the book were made without a degree network and were oriented not to the north, but to the south. The atlas summarizes the geographic materials accumulated by that time. The first edition of the atlas with a foreword by Remezov himself was published by the Archaeographic Commission in 1882 in St. Petersburg.

The original "Drawing Book of Siberia" remained inaccessible to the general scientific community. On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the creation of the atlas, the directorate and researchers of the Russian State Library together with specialists Federal Service geodesy and cartography of Russia decided to carry out its facsimile edition. It took about three years the work of a group of specialists - geographers, historians, artists and printers. It also required a lot of money.

By the end of 2003, the circulation of the two-volume edition " Drawing book of Siberia» S. Remezov was ready.

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KUNGUR CHRONICLE

Remezov chronicle (also " Tobolsk chronicler », « Siberian history" And " Chronicle Siberian, brief Kungur”) is one of the Siberian chronicles.

The time of writing the chronicle dates from the end of the 17th century to 1703. The author is Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov, possibly also the participation of his sons and father.

The chronicle tells about Yermak's campaign in Siberia and is divided into 157 (154) chapters. It is based both on various oral sources and on the annals of Savva Esipov (1636). It also includes the Kungur Chronicle.

The Remezov chronicle is provided with 154 black and white drawings, which distinguishes it from other Siberian chronicles. Each image occupies 9/10 of the page, 1/10 of the text. These drawings were probably influenced by the illustrations of the Royal Book and the engraving of the "Synopsis" by Innokenty Gizel. The drawings of the Kungur Chronicle included in it are distinguished by a different style of execution.

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CHOROGRAPHICAL BOOK OF SIBERIA (1697-1711) - COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF SIBERIA BY REMEZOV S.U.


The history of this book is contradictory and largely unclear - although the book is dedicated to Peter I, it was not handed to him. In Russia, she is almost unknown. Original "