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
Pyotr Kuzmich Krenitsyn () (1728 – July 4, 1770), spelt "Krenitzin" in the United States, was a Russian explorer and Captain/Lieutenant of the Imperial Russian Navy. Following Vitus Bering's 1741 tragic venture he was the first to conduct an ex ...
and
Mikhail Levashov, in 1767 he was sent from
Bolsheretsk
Bolsheretsk () or Bolsheretsky jail is an abandoned village on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. Over a 200-year period, Bolsheretsk was a military fort, a prison, a port, and a village.
Bolsheretsk was founded in 1703 as a for ...
on the
Kamchatka Peninsula
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Immediately offshore along the Pacific ...
to
Tobolsk
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with papers from Krenitsyn to the governor; detained en route at
Okhotsk
Okhotsk ( rus, Охотск, p=ɐˈxotsk) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Okhotsky District of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk. Population:
...
, 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
Captain (Royal Navy), Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer famous for his three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans, conducted between 176 ...
and His Officers".
Later, during
Adam Laksman's voyage to Japan in 1792–3, Lovtsov captained the ''Ekaterina'' on which they sailed.
See also
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Sakoku
is the most common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almost all ...
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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 establish ...
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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
* António d ...
References
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18th-century explorers from the Russian Empire
Explorers of Asia
Russian cartographers