Imperiia: a spatial history of the Russian Empire

Map work in Moscow

Remezov left Tobol'sk on July 5, 1697 and arrived in Moscow on August 14. During his stay in the capital, Remezov occupied himself with preparing the reconstruction of Tobol'sk (the project that had consumed the lionshare of his time since 1684) and with producing a general map of Siberia. 

This latter task required Remezov to copy the 18 maps that had been compiled in the various Siberian districts in the wake of the tsar's 1696 order. (The maps had been sent only to Moscow, bypassing Tobol'sk altogether.) Remezov had to reduce the maps and convert them to a common scale. The work was arduous, but on November 8, 1698, he finished the map, executed on white nankin, and presented it to Vinius. (The map has not survived.)

Remezov inserted copies of the maps of Tiumen, Tara, Berezov, Tomsk, Kuznetsk, and Mangazeia in the Chorographic sketchbook. He included blank pages intended for a few more of the missing maps, but never bothered to complete them.

Although he had brought the sketchbook to Moscow with the intention of presenting it to the tsar, he never followed through. The sketchbook remained incomplete and by 1701 Remezov had replaced it with a larger format copy (on "Alexander paper"), which would be known as the Chertezhnaya Kniga.

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