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Johann Christian
Berkhan (Berkhan)

Draftsman, worked in the first half of the EIGHTEENTH century Together with the artists I. V. Lucenius and J. D. Decker participated in an expedition under the leadership of I. G. Gmelin and G. F. Miller in the Urals and Siberia. The expedition was made of ethnographic, Botanical, Zoological sketches, "cut," "perspectives on cities" the way of the expedition from the city of Novgorod in Tver, Kazan to the Urals, from Siberia. Berkhan from 1733 to 1735, he removed the "prospects of cities," in the beginning. 1739 went to Kamchatka. They painted views of the cities of Yekaterinburg (1734), Tobolsk (1734). Apparently, since September, 1746, to March, 1748, he was again in the Urals, in any case, we find documentary proof that in 1747 Berkhan went from the city of Solikamsk with the registry (163 Fig.) Siberian pictures, including 7 "of prospects dushevnyh".

Lit.: Materials for the history of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. SPb., 1895. Vol. 8. C. 22-23, 319, 387, 395, 431-432, 441, 470, 473, 483-484; 624-625, 643.; Fedorov-Davydov A. Russian landscape of the EIGHTEENTH - early NINETEENTH century Cambridge: 1953. P. 284.; Alekseeva M. A. a Meeting of the Russian and Siberian cities. A series of engravings of the EIGHTEENTH century // the State Russian Museum. L., 1964. No. 8. S. 65-74.

(Source: encyclopedia of "Perm Krai", Kazarinova N. V.)

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