Nadezhda (1802 Russian ship)
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Nadezhda was a three-masted sloop, the ex-British merchantman and slave ship Leander, launched in 1799. A French privateer captured her in 1801, but she quickly came back into British hands. Private R
The sloop Nadezhda
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.
Nadezhda (1802 Russian ship)
…vessels were never part of the Russian navy. The two ships took part in the first Russian circumnavigation of the world, with Nadezhda serving as Admiral Krusenstern's flagship. The expedition failed, however, to achieve two of its main goals, to establish diplomatic relations with Japan, and to secure trading rights…
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