A pesky question plagued him: Why was Russia no longer a leading exploratory power? Adam Johann von Krusenstern set out to change things. Because of his persistence and determination, he expanded ...

In August 1803, Imperial Russian naval officer Yuri Lisianski (1773-1837), captain of the sloop-of-war “Neva,” and Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern, commander of the frigate “Nadezhda ...

A wreath-laying ceremony was held at the cathedral in Tallinn where the ship’s namesake, the Baltic German Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (admiral of the Russian Imperial Navy), was buried in 1846 ...