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Adam Johann von Krusenstern

1770 - 1846

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Adam Johann von Krusenstern (name in Russia: Ива́н Фёдорович Крузенште́рн, Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern; 10 October 1770 – 12 August 1846) was a Baltic German admiral of the Russian Empire and the explorer who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Johann von Krusenstern has received more than 149,316 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Adam Johann von Krusenstern is the 89th most popular explorer (up from 105th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 19th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Explorer.

Adam Johann von Krusenstern is most famous for being the Russian naval officer who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe in 1803-1806.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Adam Johann von Krusenstern ranks 89 out of 405Before him are Bjarni Herjólfsson, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Jeanne Baret, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Juan Díaz de Solís, and Sebastian Cabot. After him are Jean de Béthencourt, Diogo Dias, Heinrich Barth, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Robert FitzRoy, and Gonzalo Pizarro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Adam Johann von Krusenstern ranks 13Before him are William Wordsworth, François Gérard, Anton Reicha, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Princess Carolina of Parma, and Louis-Gabriel Suchet. After him are Theodoros Kolokotronis, Ferdinando Carulli, Pierre Cambronne, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Alexandre Pétion, and Manuel Belgrano. Among people deceased in 1846, Adam Johann von Krusenstern ranks 7Before him are Pope Gregory XVI, Louis Bonaparte, Emperor Ninkō, Friedrich Bessel, Friedrich List, and Francis IV, Duke of Modena. After him are Andrew Kim Taegon, Rodolphe Töpffer, Otto von Kotzebue, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, and Domenico Dragonetti.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Adam Johann von Krusenstern ranks 14 out of 310Before him are Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Louis Kahn (1901), Lennart Meri (1929), Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929), Paul Keres (1916), and Arnold Rüütel (1928). After him are Paul von Rennenkampf (1854), Jacob De la Gardie (1583), Felix Kersten (1898), Adolf von Harnack (1851), Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770), and Alar Karis (1958).

Among EXPLORERS In Estonia

Among explorers born in Estonia, Adam Johann von Krusenstern ranks 2Before him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778). After him are Eduard von Toll (1858).