Digital Image: 1734 Kirilov Map of the Russian Empire
RussianEmpire-kirilov-1734_d
Title
Imperii Russici tabula generalis quo ad fieri potuit accuratissime descripta opera et studio Ioannis Kyrilow.
1734 (dated) 22.75 x 36.26 in (57.785 x 92.1004 cm) 1 : 12000000
1734 (dated) 22.75 x 36.26 in (57.785 x 92.1004 cm) 1 : 12000000
Description
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Digital Map Information
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Cartographer
Ivan Kirillovich Kirilov (Иван Курилов, 1689 - April 14, 1737) was a Russian cartographer and surveyor active in Moscow in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He is considered to be the Father of Russian Cartography. He was born to a mid-level government official serving under Peter the Great. When Peter founded the Russian Naval Academy in 1701 many educated families encouraged their male children to enroll. Kirilov was enrolled one year later in 1702, when he was just 13. There he studied navigation under the polymath Leontij Magnitzki, and his assistants. He graduated from the academy in 1707, taking up a position in the Navy Department, which allowed him to travel and study in other parts of Europe. He later transferred to the Civil Service Land Survey Department, where he became a clerk and surveyor. There he impressed his superiors and was recalled to Moscow in 1712, to work in the head office of the Estates Department (Pomyestni Prikaz). He was subsequently transferred to the Senate Chancellery where he rose through the ranks and his reputation as a master mapmaker grew. When Peter the Great instituted a empire-wide survey, Kirilov was put at his head. Kirilov compiled new and existing survey work into a series of map between 1726 and 1834, which eventually were published as the Russia's first scientific atlas, the Atlas Imperii Russici. After the initial publication of his atlas, Kirilov continued to compile additional maps of Russia into an even greater survey. Unfortunately, defeated by his excoriating work ethic, the dedicated cartographer contracted consumption and died four years later, in 1737. After his death, all of Kirilov's work was acquired by the St. Petersburg Academy and suppressed, so surviving examples are exceedingly rare. More by this mapmaker...
References
OCLC 494964814. Bagrow, L. 'Ivan Kirilov, compiler of the first Russian Atlas, 1689–1737', Imago Mundo, Volume 2, 1937.