Yuri Lisyansky
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Yuri Lisyansky | |
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| Born | 12 April [O.S. 1 April] 1773 Nizhyn, Cossack Hetmanate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 6 March 1837 (aged 63) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Allegiance |  Russia |
| Service/ |  Imperial Russian Navy |
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| Awards | Order of Saint Vladimir |
Yuri Fyodorovich LisyanskyBritish Royal Navy and later headed the first Russian circumnavigation aboard the Neva. He was also among the early western explorers to visit Easter Island.
Biography
The birthplace of Yuri Lisyansky is not known with certainty, because his birth records are not preserved. However it is assumed that he was born in
North American Station operating against French convoys and privateers, and how while in the West Indies he was struck by yellow fever
, recalling how Murray had helped his recovery, even giving up part of his own accommodation for the sick Lisyansky.
In 1803–1806, Lisyansky as the commanding officer of the
Tlingit in the Battle of Sitka, Alaska. During his stay in Alaska, Lisyansky mapped its coast, the islands of Kodiak and Sitka, and left its geographical and ethnographic descriptions. He collected a unique ethnographic collection that tells about the life and culture of local peoples - Aleuts, Eskimos and Tlingit. He criticized the Russian colonial government for mercilessly oppressing and abusing the indigenous peoples of America. In 1805 he met Krusenstern again in Macau, but they soon separated. Also in 1805, he was the first to describe the Hawaiian monk seal on the island which now bears his name - Lisianski Island.[3] Eventually, Neva was the first to return to Kronstadt on 22 July 1806. For his feats Lisyansky received several rewards, including the Order of Saint Vladimir
of 3rd degree. He described his own adventures and travels in the book Voyage Round the World with maps and drawings, which he published in Russian and English in 1812-1814.
Lisyansky was buried at
St. Petersburg
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Memorials
A number of places are named after him:
Okhotsk Sea
, and a peninsula by the Okhotsk Sea.
There is the memorial museum of Yu.Lisyansky in his family house in Nizhyn and a monument by the house.[4]
The 1965-built icebreaker Ledokol-9 was renamed Yuriy Lisyanskiy in 1966.
Notes
- ^ Also spelled Urey Lisiansky, Lisianski, and Lysyansky
References
- ^ Smith, Abigail M.; Jones, Mary E. Spencer; Jackson, Patrick N. Wyse (2014). "Bryozoans of the Krusenstern Expedition(1803-1806)" (PDF). Annals of Bryology. 4: 183–194.
- ^ Katherine Routledge refers to page 58 of his book "Voyage Round the World in the Ship Neva", London 1814.
- ^ Monachus Guardian
- ^ Меморіальний будинок-музей Юрія Лисянського
Sources
- Lisyansky, Yuri (1814). A Voyage Round the World in 1803, 4, 5 & 6 in the Ship Neva. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. ISBN 9780839811626.
- Barratt, Glynn R. deV. A Russian View of Philadelphia, 1795-96: From the Journal of Lieutenant Iurii Lisianskii // Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. Vol. 65, No. 1 (Winter 1998), pp. 62-86.
- Naming of Alaska
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