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Vasilii Fedorovich Lovtsov
Vasilii Fedorovich Lovtsov (russian: Василий Фёдорович Ловцов), sometimes Grigorii Lovtsov, was a late-eighteenth century Russian navigator and cartographer. Biography Still a junior navigator at the time of the expedition of Pyotr Krenitsyn and Mikhail Levashov, in 1767 he was sent from Bolsheretsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula to Tobolsk with papers from Krenitsyn to the governor; detained en route at Okhotsk, the documents he was carrying were opened. In 1782, back at Bolsheretsk, he compiled an atlas of the north Pacific "from Discoveries Made by Russian Mariners and Captain James Cook and His Officers". Later, during Adam Laksman's voyage to Japan in 1792–3, Lovtsov captained the ''Ekaterina'' on which they sailed. See also *Sakoku * Empire of Japan–Russian Empire relations *List of Westerners who visited Japan before 1868 This list contains notable Europeans and Americans who visited Japan before the Meiji Restoration. The name of each individual i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasilii Fedorovich Lovtsov (Hakodate City Central Library)
Vasilii Fedorovich Lovtsov (), sometimes Grigorii Lovtsov, was a late-eighteenth century Russian navigator and cartographer. Biography Still a junior navigator at the time of the expedition of Pyotr Krenitsyn and Mikhail Levashov, in 1767 he was sent from Bolsheretsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula to Tobolsk with papers from Krenitsyn to the governor; detained en route at Okhotsk, the documents he was carrying were opened. In 1782, back at Bolsheretsk, he compiled an atlas of the north Pacific "from Discoveries Made by Russian Mariners and Captain James Cook and His Officers". Later, during Adam Laksman's voyage to Japan in 1792–3, Lovtsov captained the ''Ekaterina'' on which they sailed. See also *Sakoku * Empire of Japan–Russian Empire relations *List of Westerners who visited Japan before 1868 This list contains notable Europeans and Americans who visited Japan before the Meiji Restoration. The name of each individual is followed by the year of the first visit, the country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Laxman
Adam Kirillovich (Erikovich) Laxman (russian: Адам Кириллович (Эрикович) Лаксман) (1766 – 1806?) was a Finnish–Swedish military officer and one of the first subjects of Imperial Russia to set foot in Japan. A lieutenant in the Imperial Russian military, he was commissioned to lead an expedition to Japan in 1791, returning two Japanese castaways to their home country in exchange for trade concessions from the Tokugawa shogunate. He was the son of Erik Laxmann. Expedition to Japan (1792) Laxman landed on Hokkaidō on 9 October 1792, where he was met by members of the Matsumae clan, who were entrusted with defending Japan's northern borders. Unlike previous foreign visitors, Laxman was treated hospitably, but this changed when he demanded, imprudently, that he be able to deliver the castaways ( Daikokuya Kōdayū's party) to Edo (modern-day Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Explorers Of Asia
Exploration refers to the historical practice of discovering remote lands. It is studied by geographers and historians. Two major eras of exploration occurred in human history: one of convergence, and one of divergence. The first, covering most of ''Homo sapiens'' history, saw humans moving out of Africa, settling in new lands, and developing distinct cultures in relative isolation. Early explorers settled in Europe and Asia; 14,000 years ago, some crossed the Ice Age land bridge from Siberia to Alaska, and moved southbound to settle in the Americas. For the most part, these cultures were ignorant of each other's existence. The second period of exploration, occurring over the last 10,000 years, saw increased cross-cultural exchange through trade and exploration, and marked a new era of cultural intermingling, and more recently, convergence. Early writings about exploration date back to the 4th millennium B.C. in ancient Egypt. One of the earliest and most impactful thinkers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century People From The Russian Empire
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded across the shores of the Atlantic, while declining in Russia, China, and Korea. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures, including the structures and beliefs that supported slavery. The Industrial Revolution began during mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who expand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Westerners Who Visited Japan Before 1868
This list contains notable Europeans and Americans who visited Japan before the Meiji Restoration. The name of each individual is followed by the year of the first visit, the country of origin, and a brief explanation. 16th century * Two Portuguese People, Portuguese traders, António Mota, António da Mota and Francisco Zeimoto (possibly a third named António Peixoto), land on the island of Tanegashima in 1543. They are the first documented Europeans to set foot in Japan. *Fernão Mendes Pinto (1543, Portugal) Claimed to be one of the first Westerners who visited Japan and wrote about the introduction of guns to the Japanese, though the account is almost certainly untrue. *Francis Xavier (1549, Kingdom of Spain, Spain (on Portuguese mission)) The first Roman Catholic missionary who brought Christianity to Japan. *Cosme de Torres (1549, Spain) A Spanish Jesuit (on Portuguese mission) who successfully converted Ōmura Sumitada to Christianity – the first Christian ''daimyō''. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Of Japan–Russian Empire Relations
Relations between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire (1855–1917) were minimal until 1855, mostly friendly from 1855 to the early 1890s, but then turned hostile, largely over the status of Manchuria and of Korea. The two empires established diplomatic and commercial relations from 1855 onwards. The Russian Empire officially ended in 1917, and was succeeded by Communist rule formalized in 1922 with the formation of the Soviet Union. For later periods, see Japan–Soviet Union relations (1922–1991) and Japan–Russia relations (1992–present). Establishment of relations (1778–1860) From the beginning of the 17th century, the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan imposed a state of isolation, forbidding trade and contact with the outside world, with a narrow exception for the Netherlands. Its merchants were restricted to an island in the port of Nagasaki. Entering Japan itself was strictly prohibited. From the early 19th century, the western colonial powers esp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakoku
was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, for a period of 265 years during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and nearly all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country. The policy was enacted by the shogunate government (or ) under Tokugawa Iemitsu through a number of edicts and policies from 1633 to 1639, and ended after 1853 when the Perry Expedition commanded by Matthew C. Perry forced the opening of Japan to American (and, by extension, Western) trade through a series of treaties, called the Convention of Kanagawa. It was preceded by a period of largely unrestricted trade and widespread piracy. Japanese mariners and merchants traveled Asia, sometimes forming communities in certain cities, while official embassies and envoys visited Asian states, New Spain (known as Mexico sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokkaido University
, or , is a Japanese national university in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It was the fifth Imperial University in Japan, which were established to be the nation's finest institutions of higher education or research. Hokkaido University is considered one of the top universities in Japan and was ranked 5th in THE Japan University Rankings. It was also selected as a "Top Type" university by the Japanese government's Top Global University Project. The main campus is located in downtown Sapporo, just north of Sapporo Station, and stretches approximately 2.4 kilometers northward. History The history of the university dates to the formal incorporation of Yezo as Hokkaido into the Japanese realm. Director of the Hokkaidō Development Commission Kuroda Kiyotaka, having traveled to America in 1870, looked to the American model of settling the new lands. Upon return he brought General Horace Capron, a commissioner of agriculture who pushed for the adoption of new agricultural practices and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cook
James Cook (7 November 1728Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec, which brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society. This acclaim came at a crucial moment for the direction of British overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Adam Laxman (Nemuro City Museum Of History And Nature)
Ekaterina is a Russian feminine given name, and an alternative transliteration of the Russian ''Yekaterina''. Katya and Katyusha are common diminutive forms of Ekaterina. Notable people with the name can be found below. Arts *Ekaterina Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter *Ekaterina Sedia (born 1970), Russian fantasy author Sports * Yekaterina Abramova (born 1982), Russian speed skater *Ekaterina Alexandrova (born 1997), Russian professional tennis player *Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya (2000–2020), Russian-Australian pairs skater *Ekaterina Anikeeva (born 1969), Russian water polo player *Ekaterina Bychkova (born 1985), Russian professional tennis player *Ekaterina Dafovska (born 1975), Bulgarian biathlete *Ekaterina Dzehalevich (born 1986), Belarusian professional tennis player *Yekaterina Gamova (born 1980), Russian volleyball player *Ekaterina Gordeeva Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva (russian: Екатерина Александровна Гордеев� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Limestone Press
The Limestone Press is a one-man publishing house, established in 1972 by historian Richard Pierce (1918–2004). Pierce lived and worked at that time in Kingston, Ontario, and he chose the name from the nickname of Kingston, the “Limestone City”, which has its origins in its many limestone buildings. He published mainly books on Alaska’s history, mostly concerning its Russian era, but also on Ukrainian and African and other topics, as well as books dealing with Kingston's history. It is unclear whether The Limestone Press will publish any new works, since Pierce died in 2004. The remaining back catalogue is being distributed by the University of Alaska Press. The Alaska History Series *Note: The name of the series was originally ''Materials for the Study of Alaska History'', under which name it appeared from 1972 to 1980. This covers numbers 1–17. The new name ''Alaska History'' begins with no. 18. From 1993 on the series has been distributed solely by the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
