Fyodor Matisen was a friend of Alexander Kolchak and a member of the Russian Geographical Society and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
12 Facts About Fyodor Matisen
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Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1897.
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Fyodor Matisen was named assistant to commander of Polar ship Zarya Nikolai Kolomeitsev.
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In total Fyodor Matisen discovered and named about 40 islands of the Nordenskiold group; he arranged the archipelago into the following four main subgroups: Vilkitsky Islands, Pakhtusov Islands, Tsivolko Islands and Litke Islands.
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Finally Captain Fyodor Matisen abandoned the attempt and sailed towards the Lena river delta.
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Fyodor Matisen lowered the flag of the Neva Yacht Club for the last time and left Zarya.
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Fyodor Matisen returned to Yakutsk on board ship Lena with Captain Yershevskiy.
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Fyodor Matisen was a senior navigator on cruiser Zhemchug which was rushed to Tsushima to assist the Russian fleet.
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At the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917 when the Russian fleet virtually ceased to exist, Fyodor Matisen left Russia like many of his naval colleagues.
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Fyodor Matisen served as a hydrographer in the British Royal Navy for a period of time, but opted to return to Russia and went to Vladivostok in 1919.
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Fyodor Matisen became severely ill and was sent to a military hospital in Irkutsk where he died in December 1921.
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Fyodor Matisen was awarded the Order of St Vladimir for his lifelong work in hydrography.