The first explorer of Siberia D.G. Messerschmidt: Letters and documents. 1716-1721
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The collection includes letters and documents of the preparatory period and the first stage of the Siberian expedition of D. G. Messerschmidt (1685-1735)-an encyclopedist scientist, a selfless traveler, the discoverer of the natural resources of Siberia and the culture of the peoples inhabited it. In 1716, the scientist was invited by Peter I to serve in Russia in 1719. On the instructions of the tsar, he went to distant Siberia for the country"s geography, natural history, medicine, medicinal plants, epidemic diseases, a description of the Siberian peoples, philology, monuments, antiquities and antiquities and antiquities, and antiquities and antiquities and antiquities and antiquities and antiquities and antiquities and antiquities. In general, everyone is delightful. For more than a year, the scientist was in the capital of Siberia - Tobolsk and gathered rich material about the nature and culture of this region. The events of the preparatory stage of the expedition and its Tobolsk period are reflected in the published letters and documents from the collections of the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Library in Gotha. The book is addressed to historians, students and a wide range of readers who are interested in the fate of Russian science and the history of Siberia
Author:
Author:Дубинин Ю.В.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Molded
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-7133-1716-4
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