Peter the Great’s Intermezzo with G. W. Leibniz and G. Delisle: The Development of Geographical Knowledge in Russia

• Published in: Quaestio Rossica
• Main Author: Kuentzel-Witt, Kristina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ural Federal University 2018
• Subjects: Peter I; G. W. Leibniz; development of geography in Russia; 18th century; Петр I; Г. В. Лейбниц; развитие географии в России; XVIII век; Guillaume; Kamchatka; КАМЧАТК*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/QR/article/view/282; https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2018.1.282

During his second trip through Western Europe, Russian Tsar Peter the Great (1672‒1725) met the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646‒1716) shortly before the death of the latter in 1716. Peter was fascinated by Leibniz’s ideas and started bringing a new system of education and academic...