Osobliwości rzeki Leny. Edycja dzieła Antona Iwanowicza Łosiewa
Peculiarities of the Lena River. The Edited Study by Anton Ivanovich Losev

Summary/Abstract: In October 2020, a manuscript by Anton Ivanovich Losev (1765–1829), a Russian surveyorwho lived at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, was submitted for digitisation within the Jagiellonian Library’s “Patrimonium – Monuments of Literature” project. Apart from the text, the manuscript contains a number of colourful hand-made drawings and bears a long title in Russian: “Abridged description of the river Lena with addition of a general map and drawings of all peculiarities and qualities on its banks, drawn up by the district surveyor Anton Losev in the years 1785–1786.” Losev himself was widely known in Siberia, especially in Irkutsk, as a surveyor, geographer, cartographer, historian, and explorer, however elsewhere in Russia and in Poland he and his works are all but forgotten. The paper is devoted to this unique manuscript discovered in theJagiellonian Library and contains also an edition of the original work published for the first time.

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