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Nicolaes Witsen, The Dutchman Who Taught the Tsar Shipbuilding
26 April 2021
In the remote Russian city of Naryan-Mar, an exhibition has opened on Nicolaes Witsen. The seventeenth-century Dutch statesman and cartographer is one of the symbols of the shared history of Russia and the Netherlands. An expert on Russian affairs and shipbuilding, Witsen was a friend of Tsar Peter