Historical Geography Journal ISSN 2782-6511 (Print) | ISSN 3034-5286 (Online)

Irina L. Mankova
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of the History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia, Ekaterinburg)
ORCID 0000-0003-1496-0574
E-mail: ilman.08@mail.ru

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UDC: 94(571.12)«16»
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-3-36-51

ABSTRACT. The article presents a comprehensive analysis of a drawing of Tobolsk included in the «Siberian Chronicle» compiled by coachman Ivan Cherepanov from F. F. Mazurin collection (RGADA). The manuscript dates back to the 1760–1790s. The author proves that the chronicle drawing is a copy of a drawing made between March of the 1672 and May of the 1677. It is made in the manner of ancient Russian drawings: planar and three-dimensional drawings of buildings are used, illustrative images of the objects are prevailed. At the same time, the drafter sought to unify the symbols used (residential areas, forests, bridges, guard towers, bell towers). The drawing has an explication, which includes 46 anthropogenic objects, indicated by numbers. They can be divided into the following groups: defensive and communication (towers, gates, bridges, powder magazine), religious (churches, chapels, bell towers, monasteries, objects of the bishop’s residence), administrative (voivode, diak, boyar houses, prison, guardhouse, customs), public (shopping malls, trading bath, wine cellar basement, grain and salt barns). They define the structure of urban space. Images of churches allow identifying their architectural features. The comparison of the drawing from the Cherepanov Chronicle with S. Remezov’s drawings of the late 1680s–1701 provides an opportunity to trace the dynamics of changes in the cultural space of Tobolsk. It manifested itself in the expansion of the territories of the administrative center («town») and the residence of the bishops, the relocation of some socially significant facilities to new locations, and the abandonment of defensive structures along the high bank of the Irtysh. The drawings under consideration show the continuity of techniques for depicting urban space, which indicates the existence of a unified visual style in the prikaz paperwork of Tobolsk in the second half of the 17th century.

KEYWORDS: cultural landscape, Cherepanov Chronicle, Tobolsk drawing of the first half of the 1670s, Semyon Remezov drawings.

For citation: Mankova I. L. [A Drawing from the Cherepanov Chronicle as a Source for Reconstructing the Cultural Landscape of Tobolsk in the Second Half of the 17th Century]. Istoriko-geograficheskiy zhurnal [Historical Geography Journal], 2025, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 36–51. DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-3-36-51 (In Russian).

Received 24 August 2025
Accepted 21 October 2025

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