Adam Johann von Krusenstern
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Adam Johann von Krusenstern was a Russian admiral and explorer of Swedish and Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806.
Portrait, after 1838
Krusenstern family coat of arms
Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, c. 1806. The Koryaksky volcano is in the background, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far-east Russia. National Museum in Warsaw
The first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth occurred between August 1803 and August 1806. It was carried out by two ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, under the commands of Adam Johann von Krusenst
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
…Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern; 10 October 1770 – 12 August 1846) was a Russian admiral and explorer of Swedish and Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806. Krusenstern was born in Haggud, Harrien County, Reval Governorate, Russian Empire (now Hagudi, Estonia), to a Baltic German…
Harbour of St Paul on the Island of Cadiack, Russian sloop-of-war Neva
Nikolay Rumyantsev, Russian statesman who sponsored the expedition
Krusenstern's portrait by Johann Friedrich Weitsch, 1808
Unknown painter. The portrait of the admiral Nikolay Mordvinov, stored in Hermitage