Semyon Remezov

[1] 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.

For instance, Remezov's maps followed the Russian pattern of using river systems as a basis for design instead of astronomical points.

In his maps, newly founded cities are represented by elaborate churches, and, as Remezov boasts in his writing: the Russians brought the “light of inexpressible joy” to Siberia.

Remezov's lively and extensive body of work make him the preeminent, if not exclusive, source for Russian cartography in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries.

Ziborov (В.К.Зиборов), Семен Ульянович Ремезов (Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov), in Словарь книжников и книжности древней Руси.