Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke
Friedrich Benjamin Graf von Lütke, more commonly known by his Russian name Fyodor Litke, was a Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. He became a count in 1866, and an admiral in 1855. He was a corresponding member (1829), Honorable Member (1855), and President (1864) of the Russian Academy of Science in St. Petersburg. He was also an Honorable Member of many other Russian and foreign scientific establishments, and a corresponding member of the French Academy of Science in Paris.
Portrait by Ivan Kramskoi
By Sergey Zaryanko
By Pyotr Borel, based on a photograph by Andrey Denyer
Admiral v. Lütke's manor in Avanduse, present-day Estonia
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
Russian Academy of Sciences
The building of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg on Universitetskaya Embankment
Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Original headquarters of the Imperial Academy of Sciences – the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg