Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen was a Russia German cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of the Russian Empire, who attained the rank of admiral. He participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe, and subsequently became a leader of another circumnavigation expedition that discovered the continent of Antarctica. Like Otto von Kotzebue and Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Bellingshausen belonged to the cohort of prominent Baltic German navigators who helped Russia launch its naval expeditions.
Coat of arms of the Bellingshausen family
Nadezdha, on which Bellingshausen served under captain Krusenstern during the first Russian circumnavigation.
Captain Faddey Bellingshausen with the Cross of the Order of St. Vladimir
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Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev was a Russian fleet commander and an explorer.
Lazarev by Georg von Bothmann