{{Short description|Siberian geographer}}

{{Short description|Russian historian and geographer (c. 1642 – after 1720)}}

[[File:Семён Ульянович Ремезов на скульптуре «Сибирские картографы» в Тюмени.jpg|thumb|Statue of Semyon Remezov on the [[Tura (river)|Tura]] embankment, [[Tyumen]], Russia]]

[[File:Семён Ульянович Ремезов на скульптуре «Сибирские картографы» в Тюмени.jpg|thumb|Statue of Semyon Remezov on the [[Tura (river)|Tura]] embankment, [[Tyumen]], Russia]]

'''Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov''' ({{langx|ru|Семён Улья́нович Ре́мезов}}; ca. 1642, [[Tobolsk]] - after 1720, Tobolsk) was a Russian historian, architect, and [[geographer]] of [[Siberia]]. He is responsible for compiling three collections of maps, charts, and drawings of Siberia, which effectively became atlases of the area.Alexey Postnikov, Marvin Falk and Lydia Black. Exploring and Mapping Alaska: The Russian American Era, 1741 - 1867 (Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 2015), 15. Remezov's atlases were important to [[Peter the Great]]'s imperial expansion into the eastern territory of Russia as they provided the Tsar with information on the Siberian landscape and the location of its indigenous communities. Such knowledge became necessary for future administrative and military projects in the area.Valerie A. Kivelson, “Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth: Imperial Maps and Christian Spaces in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Russian Siberia”, in The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. [[James R. Akerman]] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 63.

'''Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov''' ({{langx|ru|Семён Улья́нович Ре́мезов}}; {{circa|1642}}, [[Tobolsk]] - after 1720, Tobolsk) was a Russian historian, architect, and [[geographer]] of [[Siberia]]. He is responsible for compiling three collections of maps, charts, and drawings of Siberia, which effectively became atlases of the area.Alexey Postnikov, Marvin Falk and Lydia Black. Exploring and Mapping Alaska: The Russian American Era, 1741 - 1867 (Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 2015), 15. Remezov's atlases were important for [[Peter the Great]]'s imperial expansion into the eastern territory of Russia as they provided him with information about the Siberian landscape and the location of its indigenous communities. Such knowledge became necessary for future administrative and military projects in the area.Valerie A. Kivelson, “Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth: Imperial Maps and Christian Spaces in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Russian Siberia”, in The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. [[James R. Akerman]] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 63.

Remezov's cartography of Siberia blends traditional Russian map-making practices with those of modern science and the Enlightenment that were beginning to influence Russian culture at this time. For instance, Remezov's maps followed the Russian pattern of using river systems as a basis for design, instead of astronomical points.Leo Bagrow, “Semyon Remezov: A Siberian Cartographer”, Imago Mundi 11 (1954): 114. This resulted in many of his maps being oriented to the south instead of the north.Valerie A. Kivelson, “Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth: Imperial Maps and Christian Spaces in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Russian Siberia”, in The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 62. Yet he “wrote excessively in praise of the compass” and used universally accepted scales and measures in his atlases.Valerie A. Kivelson, “Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth: Imperial Maps and Christian Spaces in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Russian Siberia”, in The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 62.

Remezov's cartography of Siberia blends traditional Russian map-making practices with those of modern science and the Enlightenment that were beginning to influence Russian culture at this time. For instance, Remezov's maps followed the Russian pattern of using river systems as a basis for design, instead of astronomical points.Leo Bagrow, “Semyon Remezov: A Siberian Cartographer”, Imago Mundi 11 (1954): 114. This resulted in many of his maps being oriented to the south instead of the north.Valerie A. Kivelson, “Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth: Imperial Maps and Christian Spaces in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Russian Siberia”, in The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 62. Yet he “wrote excessively in praise of the compass” and used universally accepted scales and measures in his atlases.Valerie A. Kivelson, “Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth: Imperial Maps and Christian Spaces in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Russian Siberia”, in The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 62.

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V.K. Ziborov (В.К.Зиборов), [https://web.archive.org/web/20091208101204/http://www.old-rus-maps.edu.mhost.ru/3/R/R1.htm Семен Ульянович Ремезов] (Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov), in ''Словарь книжников и книжности древней Руси''. (Dictionary of Book People and Book Culture of Old Russia), Vol. 3 (17th century), Part 3 (letters P through S). Saint Petersburg, Dmitry Bulanin Publishers, 1988. pp. 195–196.

==Resources==

==Sources==

* {{cite Efron|Ремезов, Семен Ульянович}}

*[http://www.mmedia.nsu.ru/remezov/vbook/obj8/title.htm Сибирь XVII века глазами современника. С.У. Ремезов и его "История Сибирская"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301161443/http://www.mmedia.nsu.ru/remezov/vbook/obj8/title.htm |date=2012-03-01 }} (The 17th-century Siberia seen by a man of the times. S.U. Remezov and his "Siberian History") {{in lang|ru}} (many illustrations)

* V. K. Ziborov. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091208101204/http://www.old-rus-maps.edu.mhost.ru/3/R/R1.htm Семен Ульянович Ремезов] [Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov], in ''Словарь книжников и книжности древней Руси'' [Dictionary of Book People and Book Culture of Old Russia]. Vol. 3 (17th century), Part 3 (letters P through S). Saint Petersburg, Dmitry Bulanin Publishers, 1988. pp. 195–196.

==Further reading==

*''The Atlas of Siberia'' by Semyon U. Remezov, facsimile ed., with an introduction by [[Leo Bagrow]] (S.-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1958)

*''The Atlas of Siberia'' by Semyon U. Remezov, facsimile ed., with an introduction by [[Leo Bagrow]] (S.-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1958)

==External links==

*[http://www.mmedia.nsu.ru/remezov/vbook/obj8/title.htm Сибирь XVII века глазами современника. С.У. Ремезов и его "История Сибирская"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301161443/http://www.mmedia.nsu.ru/remezov/vbook/obj8/title.htm |date=2012-03-01 }} [The 17th-century Siberia seen by a man of the times. S.U. Remezov and his "Siberian History"] {{in lang|ru}}

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