Admiral Krusenstern - Despatch from the Marquesas
Title: Nachricht von der Fahrt der Russischen Erdumfeglungs -
Schiffe durch das Südmeer. [Message from the Russian Voyage in the South Seas.]
Weimar: Industrie-Comptoirs, 1805.
8vo. This is a complete monthly issue, which contains a 3-page despatch from
Krusenstern's circumnavigation, and a 17-page account of Sarytchew's voyage.
Text is in German. A scarce primary resource.
Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.
This issue contains a contemporary notice from Krusenstern's circumnavigation,
while the voyage was underway, which reveals highlights from their brief time in the Marquesas.
Written by Dr. Karl Espenberg, who accompanied Krusenstern for the duration.
When the Russian explorer Ivan Fedorovich Krusenstern
arrived in the Marquesas in 1804 he found two Europeans living among the natives.
They were Jean Baptiste Cabri and Edward Roberts, each whom had lived on the
islands for several years and had been tattooed in the Marquesan fashion.
Krusenstern employed them as guides and interpreters, while George Heinrich von Langsdorff, the German naturalist who accompanied Krusenstern, used them as
informants when he wrote the first published account of native life and customs.
This issue also contains an narrative titled "Sarütschew's Reise in das Nordmeer Zwischen Asien und Africa" [Sarytchew's Journey into the Arctic Ocean between Asia and Africa].
These are the original pages printed in 1805, and NOT a reprint.
This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816
and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy.
Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important
scientific journal.
Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern was an Imperial Russian, Baltic German
admiral and explorer. In Russia, Krusenstern is known as Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern.
From 1803-1806, under the patronage of Tsar Alexander I and Baron Nikolai Rezanov, Krusenstern led the first Russian circumnavigation of the world. The purpose of
the two-ship expedition was to establish trade with China and Japan, facilitate
trade in South America, and examine California for a possible colony.
'Nadezhda' commanded by Krusenstern, and 'Neva' commanded by Captain-Lieutenant
Yuri F. Lisianski, set sail from Kronstadt, rounded Cape Horn, 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 in 1810, then published in 1811-1812 in Berlin. This was followed by an English translation, published in London 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 and won him an honorary membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Gavril Andreyevich Sarychev, a Russian navigator, hydrographer, and admiral,
started his career in the Imperial Russian Navy in 1775. From 1785-1794, he took part
in the expedition led by Royal Navy officer Joseph Billings. Sarychev, on ship Slava Rossii (Glory of Russia), described and mapped the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk from Okhotsk to Aldoma, many of the Aleutian Islands (especially Unalaska). He also described the islands of Pribylov, St. Matthew Island, St. Lawrence Island, Gvozdev, and King Island.
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