The role of Tobolsk service people in the military, administrative and economic affairs of the Voivodeship was very prominent. Semyon Remezov was one of the most famous among them in the Peter I epoch.
Semyon Remezov was a multifaceted figure and had a multifaceted personality. Experts in many areas of Russian culture study his legacy. Cartography and architecture, chronicles and book miniatures, ethnography and archeology were the area of interest of the great scientist.
Semyon Remezov was born in 1642 in the town of Tobolsk. He was ‘one of the non-recruited children of the boyars’: both his grandfather and father were Tobolsk service men. His brother Nikita, served in Tobolsk in the troops of boyar children. At the time of the birth of his son the father was a sotnik among the streltsy. Semyon joined the civil service only in 1682 ‘by sentence’ of voivode Alexey Golitsyn. Remezov’s activity was connected with such work common for service people, but his interests and activities were much broader.
Semyon Remezov, founder of the only stone Kremlin in Siberia in Tobolsk, founder of engineering graphics in the Urals and Siberia, architect and builder, artist and writer — historian, and outstanding Russian scientist, is known mainly for his geographical and cartographic works. The whole life and activity of this man was aimed at studying, mastering, developing and, of course, glorifying the “happy and red-flowered” Siberia, which he himself compared to a peaceful angel.
In his chronicles “History of Siberia”, “Description of the Siberian peoples and the faces of their lands”, Semyon Remezov made a kind of portrait of his time, which has survived to our days. But we do not have a portrait of the cartographer himself – neither he nor his contemporaries painted the image of Remezov. That is why we do not know what he looked like.
Modern artists have repeatedly created his image, guided, among other things, by drawings of the “History of Siberia”. This observation is true for the portrait presented in the exposition of the Tobolsk Museum Reserve. “Portrait of Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov” was made by the artist N. V. Nikolaeva, she painted a generalized image of the Russian architect.
Semyon Remezov was a multifaceted figure and had a multifaceted personality. Experts in many areas of Russian culture study his legacy. Cartography and architecture, chronicles and book miniatures, ethnography and archeology were the area of interest of the great scientist.
Semyon Remezov was born in 1642 in the town of Tobolsk. He was ‘one of the non-recruited children of the boyars’: both his grandfather and father were Tobolsk service men. His brother Nikita, served in Tobolsk in the troops of boyar children. At the time of the birth of his son the father was a sotnik among the streltsy. Semyon joined the civil service only in 1682 ‘by sentence’ of voivode Alexey Golitsyn. Remezov’s activity was connected with such work common for service people, but his interests and activities were much broader.
Semyon Remezov, founder of the only stone Kremlin in Siberia in Tobolsk, founder of engineering graphics in the Urals and Siberia, architect and builder, artist and writer — historian, and outstanding Russian scientist, is known mainly for his geographical and cartographic works. The whole life and activity of this man was aimed at studying, mastering, developing and, of course, glorifying the “happy and red-flowered” Siberia, which he himself compared to a peaceful angel.
In his chronicles “History of Siberia”, “Description of the Siberian peoples and the faces of their lands”, Semyon Remezov made a kind of portrait of his time, which has survived to our days. But we do not have a portrait of the cartographer himself – neither he nor his contemporaries painted the image of Remezov. That is why we do not know what he looked like.
Modern artists have repeatedly created his image, guided, among other things, by drawings of the “History of Siberia”. This observation is true for the portrait presented in the exposition of the Tobolsk Museum Reserve. “Portrait of Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov” was made by the artist N. V. Nikolaeva, she painted a generalized image of the Russian architect.
