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Nikolai Rezanov

1764 - 1807

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Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov (Russian: Николай Петрович Резанов, 28 March [O.S. 8 April] 1764 – 13 March [O.S. 1 March] 1807), a Russian nobleman and statesman, promoted the project of Russian colonization of Alaska and California to three successive Emperors of All Russia—Catherine the Great, Paul, and Aleksander I. Aleksander I commissioned Rezanov as Russian ambassador to Japan (1804) with the aim of concluding a commercial treaty. In order to get to his post he was appointed co-commander of the First Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806), led by Adam Johann von Krusenstern. Rezanov left the expedition in 1805 when it returned to Kamchatka after visiting Japan (1804-1805). Rezanov wrote a lexicon of the Japanese language and several other works, which are preserved in the library of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Rezanov is the 197th most popular explorer (down from 187th in 2019), the 711th most popular biography from Russia (up from 741st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 197 out of 498. Before him are Alexander Mackenzie, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Gaspar Corte-Real, Simon Fraser, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, and Rodrigo de Bastidas. After him are James Weddell, Don Walsh, Francisco de Montejo, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Pedro Arias Dávila, and Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 12. Before him are Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, John Goodricke, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Fletcher Christian, and Alexander Mackenzie. After him are Barbara von Krüdener, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Andrés Manuel del Río, Sophie de Condorcet, and Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo. Among people deceased in 1807, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 13. Before him are George Atwood, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, John Newton, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm. After him are Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Jacob Philipp Hackert, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, and Jean-François Rewbell.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 711 out of 3,761. Before him are Kirill Kondrashin (1914), Irina Godunova (1557), Mordechai Spiegler (1944), Lev Ivanov (1834), Alexey Kaledin (1861), and Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746). After him are Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Mikhail Mil (1909), Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (1854), Franz Schlegelberger (1876), Fyodor Okhlopkov (1908), and Eduard Uspensky (1937).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), and Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746). After him are Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Karl Maximovich (1827), and Aleksei Chirikov (1703).

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