Beringiana
BERINGIANA is a series of publications relating broadly to the explorer Vitus Bering.
Its scope encompasses Danish-Russian relations, exploration of the North Pacific,
Russian eighteenth-century culture and history, Siberian studies, and the history of Russian America.
Series editor: Peter Ulf Møller, Professor Emeritus, Department of East European Studies, Institute of History and Area Studies, Aarhus University.
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The Journal of Midshipman Chaplin (book + e-book):
A Record of Bering's First Kamchatka Expedition
Edited by Tatiana S. Fedorova, Peter Ulf Møller, Viktor G. Sedov and Carol L. Urness
In 1725 the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, signed orders for Vitus Bering to set out on the First Kamchatka Expedition in order to establish if Asia and North America were connected, and to define the north-eastern borders of the …
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Letters from the Governor's Wife (book + e-book):
A View of Russian Alaska 1859-1862
Edited by Annie C. Christensen
When Johan Furuhjelm was offered the governorship of Russian America in 1858, the 37-year-old Finnish officer found himself in a quandary. He needed a wife to support him in the new post, with its mix of mercantile and administrative responsibilities, …
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Under Vitus Bering's Command:
New Perspectives on the Russian Kamchatka Expeditions
Edited by Natasha Okhotina Lind and Peter Ulf Møller
From 1725 until his death in 1741, Vitus Bering commanded two of the most ambitious journeys of exploration in the 18th century. Each required years of overland travel across Asia to reach desolate Kamchatka and the Pacific coast of Siberia, …
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