76 Russia’s expansion
Although groups of Russians had been moving to Siberia and building settlements there since the sixteenth century, members of Peter’s Academy conducted the first systematic explorations, especially from 1733 during the second expedition of the Danish Captain Vitus Bering (1681-1741). The Russian expansion went by land rather than by sea to the East and the South and still had a long way to go when this map appeared in the Proceedings.
Date:
1729
Catalog record:
AB 8468F
Number:
76 
