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Book/Printed Material Dvukratnoe puteshestvie v" Ameriku morskikh" ofit︠s︡erov" Khvostova i Davydova. Pisannoe sim" posli︠e︡dnim". Двукратное путешествiе въ Америку морскихъ офицеровъ Хвостова и Давыдова. Писанное симъ послѣднимъ.

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Title

  • Dvukratnoe puteshestvie v" Ameriku morskikh" ofit︠s︡erov" Khvostova i Davydova. Pisannoe sim" posli︠e︡dnim".

Other Title

  • Двукратное путешествiе въ Америку морскихъ офицеровъ Хвостова и Давыдова. Писанное симъ послѣднимъ.

Translated Title

  • An Account of Two Voyages to America by the Naval Officers Khvostov and Davydov.

Summary

  • 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 by the naval officers Khvostov and Davydov) is an account of both voyages, written by Davydov. Part One covers the first voyage, which took the men across Siberia, from Tomsk to Tyumen', Irkutsk, Yakutsk, Kamchatka, the Kurile Islands and Kodiak Island, which is today part of Alaska. They then sailed back to Okhotsk, and again traveled overland across Siberia to Saint Petersburg, where they arrived in February 1804. Part Two of the work documents the second voyage. After again traveling by land across Siberia, the men reached Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy on the Kamchatka Peninsula, where Davydov met the famous tsarist official Nikolai Rezanov. Davydov then traveled by ship with Rezanov to Alaska and California. It was on this famous diplomatic mission to California that Rezanov sought to extend the Russian colonial presence south. He ultimately agreed with the Spanish commandant at the Presidio in San Francisco on the establishment of a Russian outpost at Fort Ross. In addition to an account of the trip to California, Part Two includes descriptions of the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilof Islands, Kodiak, the Kenai Peninsula, and New Archangel (Sitka). Davydov was a careful observer of both natural and cultural life who took ethnographic notations about the native peoples, made records of flora, fauna, and climatic conditions and commented on the activities of the Russian-American Company. He also compiled a Russian-Tlingit dictionary from Sitka, as well as a Russian-Kenaitsy dictionary (from natives in the Kenai region of Alaska), both of which are included at the end of Part Two of this account. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Davydov, G. I. (Gavriil Ivanovich), 1784-1809 , author.
  • Khvostov, Nikolaĭ Aleksandrovich, 1776-1809.
  • Shishkov, A. S. (Aleksandr Semenovich), 1754-1841 , contributor.

Headings

  • -  maps
  • -  expeditions
  • -  Colonization
  • -  Description and travel
  • -  Russia -- Colonies
  • -  Voyages and travels
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Irkutsk Oblast
  • -  Kamchatka Krai
  • -  Khabarovsk Krai
  • -  Okhotsk
  • -  Sakha (Yakutiya) Republic
  • -  Sakhalin Oblast
  • -  Kuril Islands
  • -  Tomsk Oblast
  • -  Tyumen Oblast
  • -  United States of America
  • -  Alaska
  • -  Aleutian Islands
  • -  Anchorage
  • -  Kodiak
  • -  Pribilof Islands
  • -  Sitka
  • -  California

Notes

  • -  Opisanie pervogo iz dvukh znamenitykh puteshestviĭ, predprini︠a︡tykh sluzhashchim Rossiĭskoĭ-Amerikanskoĭ kompanii Davydovym. Na s. i︠a︡-166 ch. 1 opisanie Sibiri - Tomsk, Ti︠u︡men', Irkutsk, I︠A︡kutii︠a︡, Kamchatka, Kurily. Soderzhit takzhe opisanie ostrova Kad'i︠a︡ka, slovar' narechiĭ narodov ... obitai︠u︡shchikh mezhdu zalivom Chugachoi︠u︡ i I︠A︡kutatom i okolo Kinaiskoĭ guby.
  • -  Original text at: Russian State Library
  • -  Описание первого из двух знаменитых путешествий, предпринятых служащим Российской-Американской компании Давыдовым. На с. я-166 ч. 1 описание Сибири - Томск, Тюмень, Иркутск, Якутия, Камчатка, Курилы. Содержит также описание острова Кадьяка, словарь наречий народов ... обитающих между заливом Чугачою и Якутатом и около Кинаиской губы.

Medium

  • 2 volumes ; 22 cm

Source Collection

  • Rare Books from the Russian State Library

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018694170

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Chicago citation style:

Davydov, G. I. , , Author, Nikolaĭ Aleksandrovich Khvostov, and A. S Shishkov. Dvukratnoe puteshestvie v" Ameriku morskikh" ofit︠s︡erov" Khvostova i Davydova. Pisannoe sim" posli︠e︡dnim". 1810. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018694170/.

APA citation style:

Davydov, G. I., Khvostov, N. A. & Shishkov, A. S. (1810) Dvukratnoe puteshestvie v" Ameriku morskikh" ofit︠s︡erov" Khvostova i Davydova. Pisannoe sim" posli︠e︡dnim". [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018694170/.

MLA citation style:

Davydov, G. I. , , Author, Nikolaĭ Aleksandrovich Khvostov, and A. S Shishkov. Dvukratnoe puteshestvie v" Ameriku morskikh" ofit︠s︡erov" Khvostova i Davydova. Pisannoe sim" posli︠e︡dnim". 1810. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018694170/>.