Eberhard Isbrand Ides

In 1692, after the Treaty of Nerchinsk, he travelled as an envoy to the Kangxi Emperor of China, accompanied by nine Russians and twelve Germans.

He returned to Russia in 1694 and seems to have been sent to Voronezh to assist with the development of a Russian Navy.

In 1697, Dreijährige Reise Nach China, a German language description of the trip was published by Adam Brandt, his former secretary, with descriptions of Siberia and Northern China.

[5] In 1704 his richly decorated Driejaarige Reize naar China, te lande gedaan door de Moscovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides was published in Dutch; two years later in English.

His account appeared in French translation, along with a work by another Dutch traveller Cornelis de Bruijn (1652–1727) in Voyage de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Persia, et aux Indes Orientales (6 parts in 2 volumes), published in Amsterdam in 1718.