said that there is no information about where these lands go, perhaps they connect with america, del lisle geography. bore the title of his majesty's first cartographer. peter ii invited him to move to st. petersburg, build a cartography school and create an atlas of the future empire. peter ii gave him a russian map of the caspian sea and the countries bordering it. gyom delil made his own map based on this map, and in the cartouche of this map it is actually written that it was made. according to a map drawn on the direct orders of the tsar, that is, peter i. according to this map, which was found in the moscow museum kremlin, someone clearly studied great britain and ireland, carefully highlighting the major cities in ink. these maps, of course, cannot be called an accurate guide for travelers. for the most part, they gave the most general idea of ​​the territories. when there were empty spaces left, gyom delil filled them with quotes and various travel notes. for example, it’s written here. the plates were valued very highly, they actually constituted the main capital of that publishin