Adam Johann Von Krusenstern
Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (November 19, 1770 – August 24, 1846; Russian: Иван Фёдорович Крузенштерн, Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern), was an admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe.
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“I wish you would not let him plunge into a ôvortex of
Dissipation.ö I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the
expression; it is such thorough novel slang—and so old, that I
dare say Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)