Yuri Lisyansky
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Yuri Fyodorovich Lisyansky was an explorer and officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He served as a volunteer in the British Royal Navy and later headed the first Russian circumnavigation aboard the Neva. He was also among the early western explorers to visit Easter Island.
Portrait by Vladimir Borovikovsky (1810)
Lisyansky's grave
Lisyansky house museum by the Saint John the Evangelist Church
First Russian circumnavigation
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The first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth took place from August 1803 to August 1806 and was carried out on two ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, under the commands of Adam Johann von Krusenstern and Yuri Lisyansky, respectively. The expedition had complementary economic, diplomatic, and exploratory goals.
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