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GOLOVNIN, VASILY MIKHAILOVICH (1776-1831) , See also:Russian See also:vice-See also:admiral, was See also:born on the loth of See also:April 1776 in the See also:village of Gulynki in the See also:province of See also:Ryazan, and received his See also:education at the Cronstadt See also:naval school. From 18o1 to 18o6 he served as a volunteer in the See also:English See also:navy. In 1807 he was commissioned by the Russian See also:government to survey the coasts of See also:Kamchatka and of Russian See also:America, including also the Kurile Islands. Golovnin sailed See also:round the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope, and on the 5th of See also:October 1809, arrived in Kamchatka. In 181o, whilst attempting to survey the See also:coast of the See also:island of Kunashiri, he was seized by the See also:Japanese, and was retained by them as a prisoner, until the 13th of October 1813, when he was liberated, and in the following See also:year he returned to St See also:Petersburg. Soon after this the government planned another expedition, which had for its See also:object the circumnavigation of the globe by a Russian See also:ship, and Golovnin was appointed to the command. He started from St Petersburg on the 7th of See also:September 1817, sailed round Cape See also:Horn, and arrived in Kamchatka in the following May. He returned to See also:Europe by way of the Cape of Good Hope, and landed at St Petersburg on the 17th of September 1819. He died on the 12th of See also:July 1831. Golovnin published several See also:works, of which the following are the most important:—See also:Journey to Kamchatka (2 vols., 1819); Journey Round the See also:World (2 vo1s., 1822) ; and Narrative of my Captivity in See also:Japan, 2811–1813 (2 vols., 1816). The last has been translated into , See also:French, See also:German and English, the English edition being in three volumes (1824). A See also:complete edition of his works was published at St Petersburg in five volumes in 1864, with maps and charts, and a See also:biography of the author by N.

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