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Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (November 19, 1770 – August 24, 1846) was a Baltic German
Baltic German

The Baltic Germans were mostly ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, which today form the countries of Estonia and Latvia....
 admiral
Admiral

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 and explorer
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 in Russian
Russian Empire

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 service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation
Circumnavigation

To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth, is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights....
 of the Earth. In Russia, Krusenstern is known as Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern .

Life
Krusenstern was born in Hagudi, close to Rapla
Rapla

File:Rapla vald coatofarms.pngRapla is a Populated places in Estonia in central Estonia, the Capital of Rapla County, the administrative centre of the Rapla Commune....
, Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
, into a Baltic German family descended from the Swedish
Swedish Empire

Sweden was, between 1611 and 1718, one of the great powers of Europe. In modern historiography this period is known as the Swedish Empire, or stormaktstiden ....
 aristocratic family von Krusenstjerna, which remained in Estonia after the country was ceded to Russia.






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Kruzenstern
Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (November 19, 1770 – August 24, 1846) was a Baltic German
Baltic German

The Baltic Germans were mostly ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, which today form the countries of Estonia and Latvia....
 admiral
Admiral

Admiral is the military rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above Vice Admiral and below Admiral of the Fleet/Fleet Admiral....
 and explorer
List of explorers

This list of explorers is sorted by surname. See also the links #See also.A B C D E F G ...
 in Russian
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation
Circumnavigation

To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth, is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights....
 of the Earth. In Russia, Krusenstern is known as Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern .

Life


Krusenstern was born in Hagudi, close to Rapla
Rapla

File:Rapla vald coatofarms.pngRapla is a Populated places in Estonia in central Estonia, the Capital of Rapla County, the administrative centre of the Rapla Commune....
, Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
, into a Baltic German family descended from the Swedish
Swedish Empire

Sweden was, between 1611 and 1718, one of the great powers of Europe. In modern historiography this period is known as the Swedish Empire, or stormaktstiden ....
 aristocratic family von Krusenstjerna, which remained in Estonia after the country was ceded to Russia. In 1787, he joined the Russian Imperial Navy and subsequently served in the Royal Navy
Royal Navy

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 in 1793-99. In 1803-1806, under the patronage of Tsar Alexander I
Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia , also known as Alexander the Blessed served as Tsar of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland....
 and Baron Nikolai Rezanov
Nikolai Rezanov

Nikolay Petrovich Rezanov was a Russian nobleman and statesman who promoted the project of Russian colonization of Alaska and California. One of the ten barons of Russia, he was the first Russian ambassador to Japan , and participated in Adam Johann von Krusenstern , commanding the expedition himself as far as Kamchatka Peninsula....
, Krusenstern led the first Russian circumnavigation
Circumnavigation

To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth, is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights....
 of the world. The purpose of the two-ship expedition was to establish trade with China
China

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 and Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, facilitate trade in South America
South America

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, and examine California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 for a possible colony.

The two ships, Nadezhda (Hope, formerly HMS Leander
HMS Leander

Six ships of the Royal Navy, have been named HMS Leander after the Greek hero Hero and Leander:* was a 52-gun fourth rate launched in 1780....
) under the command of Krusenstern, and Neva (formerly HMS Thames
HMS Thames

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Thames , after the River Thames:* HMS Thames was a 32 gun fifth rate launched in 1758 and broken up in 1803....
) under the command of Captain-Lieutenant Yuri F. Lisianski, set sail from Kronstadt, rounded Cape Horn
Cape Horn

Cape Horn island is the southernmost Headlands and bays of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile.Cape Horn is widely considered to be the most southerly point of South America, and marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage; for many years it was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried tr...
, and reached the northern Pacific. Both seafarers made maps and detailed recordings of their voyages.

Upon his return, Krusenstern wrote a detailed report, Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805 und 1806 auf Befehl Seiner Kaiserliche Majestät Alexanders des Ersten auf den Schiffen Nadeschda und Newa (Journey around the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 at the Command of his Imperial Majesty Alexander I in the Ships Nadezhda and Neva) published in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
 in 1810. It was published in 1811-1812 in Berlin
Berlin

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; this was followed by an English translation, published in London
London

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 in 1813 and subsequently by French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and Italian. His scientific work, which includes an atlas of the Pacific, was published in 1827 in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
 and won him an honorary membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Krusenstern died in 1846 in Kiltsi manor, an Estonian manor he had purchased in 1816, and was buried in the Tallinn Cathedral.

In memoriam

Also see Krusenstern (disambiguation).


The Russian training tall ship
Tall ship

A tall ship is a large traditionally rigging sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques....
 Kruzenshtern
Kruzenshtern (ship)

The Krusenstern or Kruzenshtern is a Russian four masted barque and tall ship that was built in 1926 in Bremerhaven-Weserm?nde, Germany, as shipyard number "S408" under the name Padua ....
 is named after him. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Krusenstern's circumnavigation, the ship retraced his route around the globe in 2005-2006.

The crater Krusenstern
Krusenstern (crater)

Krusenstern is a Moon Impact crater that lies amidst the battered terrain in the southern part of the Moon's near side. Nearly attached to the east-southeast rim is the crater Apianus ....
 on the Moon
Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
 is named after him. There is Krusenstern Island
Krusenstern Island

Krusenstern Island is a toponym honoring the Baltic German explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern . It was and sometimes still is used for a number of places in the Pacific Ocean:...
 in the Bering Strait
Bering Strait

The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the easternmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point of the North American continent, with latitude of about 65? 40' north, slightly south of the polar circle....
, as well as a small group of islands in the Kara Sea
Kara Sea

The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya....
, southwest of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago
Nordenskiöld Archipelago

The Nordenski?ld Archipelago or Nordenskjold Archipelago is a very large and complex cluster of islands in the eastern region of the Kara Sea....
, called Krusenstern Islands.

In Russia (as well as in other Russophone
Russophone

A Russophone is literally a speaker of the Russian language either natively or by preference. At the same time the term is used in a more specialized meaning to describe the category of people whose cultural background is associated with Russian language regardless of ethnic and territorial distinctions....
 places), a fictional steamship Admiral Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern from the popular Prostokvashino animated film series is well-known, often as part of a catch phrase
Catch phrase

A catch phrase is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such memetic phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through a variety of mass media , as well as word of mouth....
 "Admiral I.F.Kruzenshtern, a man and a steamship", "pirated" from the title of a requiem poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, To Comrade Nette, a Man and a Steamship. As a third-level linguistic derivation, there is a Russophone Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 klezmer
Klezmer

Klezmer is a musical tradition which parallels Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. Around the 15th century, a tradition of secular Jewish music was developed by musicians called klezmorim or kleyzmurim....
-rock band, Kruzenshtern & Parohod
Kruzenshtern & Parohod

Kruzenshtern & Parohod is a Russophone Israel klezmer-rock band from Tel Aviv, created in 2002. Its style is variously branded as "experimental jazz", "klezmercore" , "ethno jazz", "avant-garde"....
 ("Krusenstern and Steamship").

See also

  • Otto von Kotzebue
    Otto von Kotzebue

    Otto von Kotzebue , was a Baltic German navigator in Russian service.The second son of August von Kotzebue, he was born at Tallinn , then part of the Russian Empire....
  • Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
    Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

    Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen served as a naval officer of the Russian Empire and commanded the second Russian expedition to circumnavigation the globe....


External links

  • "Meeting of Frontiers" Conference, 2001
  • at Estonian Manors Portal
  • at Estonian Manors Portal
  • Adam Johann von Krusenstern`s family