Fyodor Matisen
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Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen or Mathiesen was an officer of the Russian Imperial Navy, hydrographer, and explorer.
Matisen in Royal Navy uniform, 1900
Russian Polar ship Zarya in 1910
The Russian polar expedition of 1900–1902 was commissioned by the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences to study the Arctic Ocean north of the New Siberian Islands and search for the legendary Sannikov
Fyodor Matisen
…Academy of Sciences. After having been senior officer and second-in-command, Matisen became the captain of Polar ship Zarya during the last part of the Russian polar expedition of 1900–1902 led by Baron Eduard von Toll. Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1897. Barely two years later, he took part in the 1899…
Baron von Toll
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, patron of the expedition
Expedition members aboard Zarya. Top row, third from left: Kolchak. Second row: Kolomeitsev, Matisen, Toll, Walter, Seeberg and Byalynitsky-Birulya
Members of the expedition on Zarya