In the history of exploration, Semyon Remezov is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Semyon Remezov as Russian cartographer.
Semyon Remezov was born at Tobolsk in 1642. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as historian, architect and geographer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Semyon Remezov died in 1720, aged 78. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as historian, architect and geographer
