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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Rezanov has received more than 95,478 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Nikolai Rezanov is the 187th most popular explorer (down from 175th in 2019), the 741st most popular biography from Russia (down from 704th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 187 out of 498. Before him are Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, William Parry, Fernão do Pó, René Caillié, and Sophie Blanchard. After him are Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Aleksandra Potanina, Jimmie Angel, Alexander Mackenzie, Bartolomeu Perestrello, and Alexander Andreyevich Baranov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 11. Before him are José Gervasio Artigas, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, John Goodricke, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Fletcher Christian, and Johann Gottfried Schadow. After him are Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Barbara von Krüdener, Sophie de Condorcet, Alexander Mackenzie, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, and Gustav Hugo. Among people deceased in 1807, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 14. Before him are Osman Pazvantoğlu, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, George Atwood, John Newton, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, and Jacob Philipp Hackert. After him are Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Alexander Ypsilantis, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Franciszek Smuglewicz, and Sophie von La Roche.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 741 out of 3,761. Before him are Vera Figner (1852), Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Ivan Susanin (1501), Fyodor Sologub (1863), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), and Boris Gromov (1943). After him are Alexander Yakovlev (1923), Nikolai Amosov (1913), Evgeny Pashukanis (1891), Gustaf Kossinna (1858), Viktor Tikhonov (1930), and Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 7. Before him are Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), and Mikhail Lazarev (1788). After him are Aleksandra Potanina (1843), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), and Vladimir Atlasov (1661).

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