Description

Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (Description of the land of Kamchatka) is a two-volume work on the cultural and natural heritage of the Kamchatka Peninsula written by the explorer and naturalist Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1713–55) and published in the year of his death. The Russians began exploring what became known as the Russian Far East in the time of Peter the Great (1672–1725). Cossacks reached the Kuril Islands in 1713, and in 1725 Vitus Bering began his first expedition. In 1728, during this trip, he discovered the strait separating Asia ...