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August von Kotzebue (1761–1819) was a German author and dramatist who lived and worked in Germany and Russia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the father of Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846), a famous Baltic German explorer who charted Arctic routes to Alaska and the North Pacific for Imperial Russia in the first part of the 19th century. Dostopamiatnyi god zhizni Avgusta Kotsebu (The most remarkable year in the life of August Kotzebue) was written to chronicle a peculiar interlude in the life of the ...