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Thirty-seven original drawings and paintings done during and after a voyage around the world undertaken between 1803 and 1807. Images illustrate two phases of the voyage: the first (1803-1805) led by Captain Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern and Ambassador Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, High Chamberlain to the Emperor Alexander, in order to open trade between Japan and Russia; and the second (1805-1806), led by Rezanov and Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff (without Kruzenshtern) to the North Coast of North America and the Aleutians. Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, physician and naturalist, was a member of both expeditions and these images were used to illustrate the two volumes of his book "Voyages and travels in various parts of the world during the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807" (German edition: Frankfurt am Main, 1812; English edition: London, 1813-1814). Depicted are locations and native populations of Oceania (Nukahiva Island, in particular), Alaska, Hawaii, California, and eastern Russia (Kamchatka). The drawings and paintings were executed by Langsdorff and other expedition party members, including Ivan Petrovich Korukin, Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau, Alexander Orloffsky, and Herrmann von Friedrici.

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