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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 87,825 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Nikolai Rezanov is the 176th most popular explorer (down from 164th in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Russia (down from 615th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Explorer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 176 out of 405. Before him are Luís Vaz de Torres, Cornelis de Houtman, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Lincoln Ellsworth, Gustav Nachtigal, and James Weddell. After him are Carsten Borchgrevink, Masabumi Hosono, Joshua Slocum, Olivier van Noort, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, and Hjalmar Johansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 13. Before him are Alexander Mackenzie, Fletcher Christian, Sophie de Condorcet, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, and Johann Gottfried Schadow. After him are John Goodricke, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Charles Percier, Barbara von Krüdener, Dorothea von Schlegel, and Jens Baggesen. Among people deceased in 1807, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 14. Before him are George Atwood, John Newton, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Jacob Philipp Hackert, and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau. After him are Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Alexander Ypsilantis, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, and Jeremias Benjamin Richter.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 706 out of 3,262. Before him are Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), Maxim Shostakovich (1938), Oleg Popov (1930), Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847), Alexander Lodygin (1847), and Lev Rudnev (1885). After him are Kirill Kondrashin (1914), Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586), Yuri Norstein (1941), Otto Braun (1872), Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842), and Pavel Tretyakov (1832).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Nikolai Rezanov ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), and Vasily Tatishchev (1686). After him are Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), and Dmitry Laptev (1701).

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