Matisen, Fyodor Andreyevich (1872–1921)

Matisen, Fyodor Andreyevich (1872–1921) – Russian Captain 1st rank Arctic explorer. In 1892, he graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps with the rank of subofficer. He served in the Baltic Fleet. In 1895, he graduated from the navigational officer class and was assigned as a junior navigation officer to the cruiser “Rurik,” on which he made a voyage to the Far East. In 1899, on board of the transport vehicle “Bakan,” Matisen participated in the expedition of the Academy of Sciences to Spitsbergen (Svalbard) to measure the length of a meridian degree (“grade measurements”). From 1900 to 1903, he was first a senior officer (since 1901, the commander) of the yacht “Zarya” and carried out hydrographic surveys as part of Russian polar expedition of the Academy of Sciences under the leadership of E.V. Toll. In 1901 (during the first wintering), he carried out a route survey of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago along the meridian of the Laptev Sea to 77⁰N and mapped a number of islands and straits...