Vasily Chichagov
Depictions of Vasily Chichagov
Vasily Yakovlevich Chichagov (
explorer
.
He was the father of Pavel Chichagov, a Russian admiral during the Napoleonic Wars.
Background
Joining the Navy at the age of 16, Chichagov was educated in Great Britain. Throughout his life, he would become enthusiastic for all things British, eventually marry an English woman, and spend his last years in the United Kingdom (after he had settled into retirement in 1797).
Expeditions
In 1764, the scientist
meteorological observations, describing the animal and plant life of Svalbard.[1]
Islands of
Nuka Hiva, in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, the inlet Chichagof Harbor on the island of Attu in the Aleutian Islands
, and a mountain at Svalbard are named after Chichagov.
Military career
During the
Reval proved his high ability in naval affairs, though indecision prevented him from achieving significant success at the battle of Vyborg the same year and thus ending the war in Russia's favor.[2] Such a resounding success at Reval, despite the huge Swedish superiority in ships of the line, was to a great extent due to the Russian superiority in ship equipment (see Reval order of battle
).
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Tomb of V. Y. Chichagov.
Lazarevskoe Cemetery
Honors
- • Order of Saint GeorgeI class (26 Jul. 1790) – "for victory in the Battle of Vyborg (Vyborg Bay)".
Notes, references and sources
Notes
- ^ Pre-1918 orthography: Василій Яковлевичъ Чичаговъ
References
- ^ Ivanov, G. V.; Kostyukov, A. D.; Tashlykov, S. L. (2020). "Военно-исторические аспекты освоения российского арктического пространства". Военно-исторический журнал (in Russian) (6). Moscow: 7.
- ^ Velichko et al. 1912.
Sources
- A. Sokolov. Lomonosov's Project and Chichagov's Expedition. SPb, 1854.
- Velichko, Konstantin I.; Novitsky, Vasily F.; Schwarz, Aleksey V. von; Apushkin, Vladimir A.; Schoultz, Gustav K. von (1912). Военная энциклопедия Сытина [Sytin Military Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Vol. VII: Воинская честь — Гимнастика военная. Moscow: Типография Т-ва И. Д. Сытина. pp. 99–101. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
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