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Vitus Jonassen Bering 16811741 is a towering figure in the history of exploration In the course of two expeditions that consumed most of his adult lifeand eventually led to his deathhe journeyed from St Petersburg to Siberia and ultimately to the northwest coast of America Along with the members of his expedition thousands participated in the second expedition Bering greatly expanded the Russian empire pioneered the geography of the North Pacific Ocean and laid the groundwork for Russian trade and settlement in the American West In the first biography of Bering written in over a century Orcutt Frost chronicles the life of this extraordinary explorer Drawing on a wide range of new evidenceincluding personal letters and archaeological evidence derived from the recent discovery of Berings grave sitethe author reconstructs Berings personality his perilous voyages and his uneasy relationship with the naturalist Georg Steller who unobtrusively guided the stranded expedition as Bering lay dying A riveting narrative of adventure and disaster on the high seas this biography is also a major contribution to the history of maritime exploration
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Facsimile copy of the original 1941 edition published in New York by Edward Eberstadt amp Sons Bound in the publishers original grey cloth with the spine stamped in gilt
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In Russian Colonization of Alaska Andrei Valterovich Grinëv examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska or Russian Americanbspbetween 1741 and 1799nbspBeginning withnbspthe Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich Bering and Aleksei IlyichnbspChirikovs discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and ending with the formation of the RussianAmerican Companys monopoly ofnbspthe Russian colonial endeavor in the Americas Russian Colonization of Alaskanbspoffers a definitive revisionist examination of Tsarist Russiasnbspforay into the imperial contest in North AmericaRussian Colonization of Alaskanbspis the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution of Russian colonization based on research into political economy history and ethnography Grinёvs study elaborates thenbspsocial political spiritual ideological personal and psychological aspects of Russian America He also accounts for the idiosyncrasies of the natural environment competition from other North American empires Alaska Natives and individual colonial diplomats The colonization of Alaska rather than being simply a continuation of the colonization of Siberia by Russians was insteadnbsppart of overarching Russian and global history nbsp
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In Russian Colonization of Alaska Andrei Valterovich Grinëv examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska or Russian Americanbspbetween 1741 and 1799nbspBeginning withnbspthe Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich Bering and Aleksei IlyichnbspChirikovs discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and ending with the formation of the RussianAmerican Companys monopoly ofnbspthe Russian colonial endeavor in the Americas Russian Colonization of Alaskanbspoffers a definitive revisionist examination of Tsarist Russiasnbspforay into the imperial contest in North AmericaRussian Colonization of Alaskanbspis the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution of Russian colonization based on research into political economy history and ethnography Grinёvs study elaborates thenbspsocial political spiritual ideological personal and psychological aspects of Russian America He also accounts for the idiosyncrasies of the natural environment competition from other North American empires Alaska Natives and individual colonial diplomats The colonization of Alaska rather than being simply a continuation of the colonization of Siberia by Russians was insteadnbsppart of overarching Russian and global history nbsp
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This translation provides a modern English version of the official reports by which Tsarist Russia learned of Vitus Berings accomplishments including his discovery of Alaska Muller prepared these accounts for the Russian Academy of Sciences founded by Peter the Great Muller accompanied Berings expedition as far as Kamchatka researching and writing Siberian history as well as that of Berings expedition Commentary scholarly notes maps and manuscripts are also included
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The European discovery of the northwest coast of America is fully and dramatically recorded in this journal an invaluable historical and scientific source document It is also a gripping narrative of human conflict of nature as the overwhelming adversary of terror and pain and death and of final deliverance In the service of the Russian tsarina the German naturalist Steller accompanied the great Danish explorer Vitus Bering on a voyage that survived shipwreck and unimaginable hardship to mark the beginning of Alaskas recorded history This book is a new translation and annotation of Stellers journal of that voyage and the first to be based completely upon a surviving copy of Stellers manuscript dated 1743 previous translation had been based on a 1793 edition The journal is the best known of Stellers writings not so much because of events along the way or its biological and anthropological observations not even because of the momentous sight of the Alaskan coast and the subsequent landings but because of the harrowing events of the return voyage Thirtytwo men of the 78 who set sail died including Bering himself 46 survived shipwreck in the winter of 174142 on a treeless uninhabited island and returned finally to home port on Kamchatka in a small vessel built from timbers of the wrecked ship On the island Bering and his lieutenant had become too ill to function and Steller found himself taking the lead in organizing work parties finding antiscorbutic plant and animal food nursing the six and cheering the depressedactions that kept all from perishing
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In the second half of the eighteenth century the Russian Empirealready the largest on earthexpanded its dominion onto the ocean Through a series of governmentsponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade Russians crossed and recrossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting marine mammal furs to Europe and China In the process they radically transformed the North Pacific causing environmental catastropheIn one of the most hotlycontested imperial arenas of the day the Russian empire organized a host of Siberian and Alaskan native peoples to rapaciously hunt for fur seals sea otters and other furbearing animals The animals declined precipitously and Stellers sea cow went extinct This destruction captured the attention of natural historians who for the first time began to recognize the threat of species extinction These experts drew upon Enlightenment and Romanticera ideas about nature and imperialism but their ideas were refracted through Russian scientific culture and influenced by the regions unique ecology Cosmopolitan scientific networks ensured the spread of their ideas throughout Europe Heeding the advice of these scientific experts Russian colonial governors began longterm management of marine mammal stocks and instituted some of the colonial worlds most forwardthinking conservationist policies Highlighting the importance of the North Pacific in Russian imperial and global environmental history Empire of Extinction focuses on the development of ideas about the natural world in a crucial location far from what has been considered the center of progressive environmental attitudes
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In the second half of the eighteenth century the Russian Empirealready the largest on earthexpanded its dominion onto the ocean Through a series of governmentsponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade Russians crossed and recrossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting marine mammal furs to Europe and China In the process they radically transformed the North Pacific causing environmental catastropheIn one of the most hotlycontested imperial arenas of the day the Russian empire organized a host of Siberian and Alaskan native peoples to rapaciously hunt for fur seals sea otters and other furbearing animals The animals declined precipitously and Stellers sea cow went extinct This destruction captured the attention of natural historians who for the first time began to recognize the threat of species extinction These experts drew upon Enlightenment and Romanticera ideas about nature and imperialism but their ideas were refracted through Russian scientific culture and influenced by the regions unique ecology Cosmopolitan scientific networks ensured the spread of their ideas throughout Europe Heeding the advice of these scientific experts Russian colonial governors began longterm management of marine mammal stocks and instituted some of the colonial worlds most forwardthinking conservationist policies Highlighting the importance of the North Pacific in Russian imperial and global environmental history Empire of Extinction focuses on the development of ideas about the natural world in a crucial location far from what has been considered the center of progressive environmental attitudes
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Spanning nine time zones from Norway to the Bering Strait the immense Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century This changed rapidly in the 1920s when the Soviet Union implemented plans for its conquest The Conquest of the Russian Arctic a definitive political and environmental history of one of the worlds remotest regions details the ambitious attempts from Soviet times to the present to control and reshape the Arctic and the terrible costs paid along the wayPaul Josephson describes the effort under Stalin to assimilate the Arctic into the Soviet empire Extraction of natural resources construction of settlements indoctrination of nomadic populations collectivization of reindeer herdingall was to be accomplished so that the Arctic operated according to socialist principles The project was in many ways an extension of the Bolshevik revolution as planners and engineers assumed that policies and plans that worked elsewhere in the empire would apply here But as they pushed ahead with methods hastily adopted from other climates the results were political repression destruction of traditional cultures and environmental degradation The effects are still being felt today At the same time scientists and explorers led the world in understanding Arctic climes and regularitiesVladimir Putin has redoubled Russias efforts to secure the Arctic seen as key to the nations economic development and military status This history brings into focus a littleunderstood part of the world that remains a locus of military and economic pressures ongoing environmental damage and grand ambitions imperfectly realized
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Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller who served on the 174142 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering Steller was one of Europes foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast In the course of the voyage Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered along with Bering and the cred of the illfated brig St Peter some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration First published in 1966 Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as among this countrys greatest outdoor writing by Field ampnbspStream magazine and today continues to enchant and enlighten the new generations of readers about this amazing and yet tragic expedition and Georg Stellers significant discoveries as an early naturalist
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Spanning nine time zones from Norway to the Bering Strait the immense Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century This changed rapidly in the 1920s when the Soviet Union implemented plans for its conquest The Conquest of the Russian Arctic a definitive political and environmental history of one of the worlds remotest regions details the ambitious attempts from Soviet times to the present to control and reshape the Arctic and the terrible costs paid along the wayPaul Josephson describes the effort under Stalin to assimilate the Arctic into the Soviet empire Extraction of natural resources construction of settlements indoctrination of nomadic populations collectivization of reindeer herdingall was to be accomplished so that the Arctic operated according to socialist principles The project was in many ways an extension of the Bolshevik revolution as planners and engineers assumed that policies and plans that worked elsewhere in the empire would apply here But as they pushed ahead with methods hastily adopted from other climates the results were political repression destruction of traditional cultures and environmental degradation The effects are still being felt today At the same time scientists and explorers led the world in understanding Arctic climes and regularitiesVladimir Putin has redoubled Russias efforts to secure the Arctic seen as key to the nations economic development and military status This history brings into focus a littleunderstood part of the world that remains a locus of military and economic pressures ongoing environmental damage and grand ambitions imperfectly realized
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Aleksei Chirikov Vitus Berings second in command contributed greatly to the organization preparation and successes of Berings first two North Pacific expeditions In fact he reached Alaska a day and a half ahead of BeringChirikov was not only a competent naval officer but also an important contributor to the cartography of eighteenthcentury Russia Despite his achievements few Russian scholars have given attention to Chirikov and his role in the second Bering expeditionThus it was not until 1953 when Vasilii A Divin wrote Velikii russkii moreplavatel A I Chirikov that a fulllength study of his career was published It is that volume which appears here A preface annotations supplementary bibliography and comprehensive index are included
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Anna M Kerttula an anthropologist offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki a Siberian village on the Bering Sea Once a traditional Yupik community it was by the final years of the Soviet Empire home to three cultural groups the Yupik native hunters of sea mammals the Chukchi nomadic reindeer herders who had been required by the state to turn their animals over to cooperative farms and Russians of European ancestry enticed to the region by incentive programs designed to colonize the Russian Far East Kerttula who lived among the villagers for eighteen months draws on her experiences to explore how each groups beliefs and customs have transformed those of the other two Her book shows the endurance of the indigenous cultures of Far Eastern Russia despite years of intrusion by the Soviet stateThe author describes in rich detail how the Yupik the Chukchi and the Russian newcomers developed a sense of cultural difference because of their separate symbolic systems and yet cohered as a community She explains that relations among the groups have become tenuous since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the subsequent collapse of the local economy Kerttulas research provides a unique perspective on todays ethnic rivalries within the former USSR She maintains that these conflicts not always expressions of ancient animosities may be efforts toward mutual understanding during times of economic and social change
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Since their discovery in nineteenthcentury Russia GrecoScythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons Drawing on a broad array of evidence from archaeology art history and epigraphy to contextualize GrecoScythian metalwork in ancient society this volume confronts the deep confusion between ancient representation and historical reality in contemporary engagements with classical culture It argues that the strikingly lifelike figure scenes of GrecoScythian art were integral to the strategies of a cosmopolitan elite who legitimated its economic dominance by asserting an intermediary cultural position between the steppe inland and the urban centres on the shores of the Black Sea Investigating the reception of this Eurasian selfimage in tsarist Russia Meyer unravels the complex relationship between ancient ideology and modern imperial visions and its legacy in current conceptions of cultural interaction and identityWith a synthesis of material evidence never yet attempted this volume breaks significant new ground in explaining the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to inner Asia and classical Greece the intersection between modern museum display and visual knowledge and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West
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An epic journey of love and discovery from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine and The Red Scarf China 1929 For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks But when she learns he is imprisoned in Stalincontrolled Russia the fiery girl is willing to leave everything behind even her Chinese lover Chang An Lo Lydia begins a dangerous search journeying to Moscow with her halfbrother Alexei But when Alexei abruptly disappears Lydia is left alone penniless in Soviet Russia All seems lost but Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia He knows things about her father that she does not And while he races to protect her she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth
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Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller who served on the 174142 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering Steller was one of Europes foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast In the course of the voyage Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered along with Bering and the cred of the illfated brig St Peter some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration First published in 1966 Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as among this countrys greatest outdoor writing by Field ampnbspStream magazine and today continues to enchant and enlighten the new generations of readers about this amazing and yet tragic expedition and Georg Stellers significant discoveries as an early naturalist
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An englishrussian duallanguage edition There is a little world under the cover of this book where every young reader can immerse himself in fantastic discoveries of the planetary peculiarities Romber the robot is a story about an exciting journey of two friends around the solar system An alien robot and a boy collect samples of each planet to make a fuel for the Rombers spaceship so that he could return to his home galaxy The book teaches children amazing facts about planets of the solar system in a fun and enjoyable way
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Since their discovery in nineteenthcentury Russia GrecoScythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons Drawing on a broad array of evidence from archaeology art history and epigraphy to contextualize GrecoScythian metalwork in ancient society this volume confronts the deep confusion between ancient representation and historical reality in contemporary engagements with classical culture It argues that the strikingly lifelike figure scenes of GrecoScythian art were integral to the strategies of a cosmopolitan elite who legitimated its economic dominance by asserting an intermediary cultural position between the steppe inland and the urban centres on the shores of the Black Sea Investigating the reception of this Eurasian selfimage in tsarist Russia Meyer unravels the complex relationship between ancient ideology and modern imperial visions and its legacy in current conceptions of cultural interaction and identityWith a synthesis of material evidence never yet attempted this volume breaks significant new ground in explaining the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to inner Asia and classical Greece the intersection between modern museum display and visual knowledge and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West
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