Sea of Azov The Eastern Part of the Sea [usually known as] Palus Maeotis and now Called the Sea of Azov...(Vostochnaja chast' morja palus meotis i nyne nazyvaetsja azovskoe more...)

Very rare and important chart of the eastern part of the Sea of Azov, the Kerch Strait and parts of the Black Sea. This important chart was compiled from measurements and surveys performed in 1699 with the participation of Peter I.
It is the first printed sea map to be produced from Russian materials. Engraved by Adriaen Schoonebeek who made this chart by order of the tsar in 1701.

With a long paragraph "Восточнаѧ часть морѧ палусъ меотисъ / и нынѣ называетсѧ азовское море: / великїй монархъ петеръ первый / императоръ царь и самодержецъ все / россiискїй ходилъ, позналъ и ѿкрылъ 1699 году / и по его великого госuдарѧ ѽказу. выгрыдоровалъ на мѣди зограѳъ Адрианъ Шхонбекъ 1701 году. (Russian text talks of Peter the Great's conquest of this region in 1699. Adriaen Schoonebeek made this by order of the tsar in 1701.)
with Latin text "super garamantes et indos proferet imperium", inside the laurel wreath.
Continuing with [...] Поднесено подолжному благодарствию, его препосходительству господiну / феѡдору алеѯиевичу головину [...] чрезъ егѡ шлѧхетности, покорнаго слугу, Адриана Шхѡнебека. In this paragraph were Schoonebeek dedicates this work to F. A. Golovin.

In the early 18th century, great advances were made in Russian mapping. Foreign engravers were employed to reproduce original maps, both of Russian and of foreign origin. Adriaen Schoonebeck and Peter Picard were responsible for most of the maps engraved by foreign masters invited to Russia. Schoonebeek had been the teacher of Maria de Wilde and Czar Peter the Great in Amsterdam, Picard became the teacher of Aleksei Ivanovich Rostovtsev in St Petersburg.
The first map engraved by Schoonebeck in Russia was this map of the Azov Sea.

The name of Peter I is associated with great advances made in Russian mapping. When coming to the throne in 1682, the Tsar embarked an essential state reforms, including the development of Russian cartography as a science. Peter I proceeded from the current political, military and economic needs of the country, guided by a strictly defined plan and system. Peter the Great undertook the task of geographically studying and mapping the whole country. Нis decrees were intended to carry out systematic surveys for the needs of the fleet and for compiling up a general map of Russia. Peter I issued orders to establish domestic schools to train professional map-makers, cartographers, geodesists, engravers etc, and to organize map-printing in Russia.

Mapping of the seas is an important milestone in the history of Russian cartography. The first instrumental surveys in Russia were based exactly on hydrographic studies. They were connected during the Azov campaigns of Peter I:
1696 – survey and description of the Voronezh river from the city of Voronezh to the point of its confluence into the Don and further along the Don to Korotoyak
1699 – hydrographic and survey work on the Don River.
1699-1700 – оsurvey and description of the southern coast of Crimea during the embassy of E. Ukraintsev in Turkey.

First Russian navigational atlas
The atlas «A Diligent Description of the Don or Tanais River…» was compiled from the materials of these surveys. The atlas later was printed in Amsterdam, the profiles of the Black Sea and the map of the eastern part of the Azov Sea.

Reference: Rovinsky 1895 , vol. 2, p. 1230, no. 30.