Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
B. Smolenskoye, Vereysky district [now Moscow region], 1716-18; d. St Petersburg, 25 Feb 1770.
Russian draughtsman and engraver. He was the son of a priest, and from 1729 he studied at the St Petersburg Naval Academy. In August 1731 he was transferred to the instrument-making department of the Academy of Sciences, where he helped to make land-surveying instruments, including theodolites (a training that was of value when he later came to sketch views of St Petersburg); he also learnt how to carve moulds for dies under Georg Unfertsagt (1701-67); and he studied drawing under the two members of the Academy staff, Ottmar Elliger II and Elias Grimmel (1703-58). In June 1743 Makhayev was made director of the cartographic and die-carving section of the Academy, and he was employed there for the rest of his life. Together with his pupils he helped to produce the Atlas rossiyskoy imperii ('Atlas of the Russian Empire'; 1740s); in addition, he provided inscriptions for diplomas for honorary members of the Academy, for porcelain snuff-boxes and for a large silver shrine at the tomb of Aleksandr Nevsky (early 175...
Bagrow.
Född 1716 10/6 på Djursholms sätesgård i Danderyds sn (Sthlm), död 1784 4/4 på Ältomta i Tensta sn (Upps.).
Kapten vid Amiralitetet och Ostindiska kompaniet. Kopparstickare. Son av befallningsmannen Gustaf E. och Ebba Catharina Fast. Ledamot av Vetenskapsakademien 1761.
Bland arbeten.
C. G. EKEBERG, Ostindisk resa, åren 1770 och 1771, Sthlm 1773: Charta öfver Gap Godt Hopp, kpst., och Utsigt af Bay Fals, kpst.
Hultmark, 1944.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Gulldraba, Draba alpina - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.