Description

This two-part work is an account of the travels across Siberia and Russian America (present-day Alaska) in the early 19th century by Gavrill Davydov and Nikolai Khvostov, two officers of the Imperial Russian Navy who were working for the Russian-American Company. The two men were friends who made two voyages to Russian America just after finishing the naval cadet corps. They took the first trip in 1802–03 and the second in 1805–6. Dvukratnoe puteshestvie v Ameriku morskikh ofitserov Khvostova i Davydova (An account of two voyages to America ...