For the ship named after this person, see Vasiliy Golovnin (ship).
Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin; portrait by Orest Kiprensky (c.1816)
Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin (Russian: Василий Михайлович Головнин; 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1776, Gulyniki, Ryazan Oblast – 11 July [O.S. 29 June] 1831, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian navigator, Vice Admiral, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1818).[1][2][3]
^Lévesque, Rodrigue (2001). History of Micronesia: Russian expeditions, 1808-1827 p.495 Quebec: Levesque
^Vasilli Golovnin, Ella Lury Wiswell, trans. (1979). Around the world on the Kamchatka, 1817-1819, p xx-xxii, xxvi Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Soc.
^Dunmore, John (1991). Who's who in Pacific navigation, p. 118 Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin (Russian: Василий Михайлович Головнин; 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1776, Gulyniki, Ryazan Oblast – 11 July [O.S. 29 June] 1831...
Kuril Islands. It is named after Russian explorer VasilyGolovnin. List of volcanoes in Russia "Golovnin". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution...
The Golovnin Incident involved the capture of the Russian explorer and naval captain VasilyGolovnin in 1811 by soldiers of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate...
Golovnin Bay (Tasiq in Inupiaq) is a waterway in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a part of Norton Sound. It is named in honor of VasilyGolovnin. Fish...
against Yamato Japanese tradespeople and colonists. Russian navigator VasilyGolovnin attempted to map and explore the island in 1811, but was apprehended...
Тиханов; 1789–1862) was a Russian artist who accompanied Captain VasilyGolovnin's circumnavigation aboard the frigate Kamchatka. Born a serf in 1789...
treaty, but his efforts were thwarted by the Japanese government. VasilyGolovnin, Fedor Mur, Andrey Khlebnikov with the crew (1811, Russia) – Russian...
Russian navy sloop in retaliation for the Japanese capture of explorer VasilyGolovnin. Along with his four sailors who were also captured on board the Kanze-maru...
authorities arrived from Kyoto. In 1811, the Russian naval lieutenant VasilyGolovnin landed on Kunashiri Island, and was arrested by the bakufu and imprisoned...
Yevreinov, Fyodor Luzhin, Martin Spanberg, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, VasilyGolovnin, and Henry James Snow. Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Kunashir Severo-Kurilsk, Paramushir...
France and Spain. In 1807–1809 Ricord took part as a senior officer in VasilyGolovnin's world cruise on the ship Diana. He was awarded with the Order of St...
that in the 1810s, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Gavril Sarychev, and VasilyGolovnin independently presented the two projects. On the contrary, English...
archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz. In several years after, navigator VasilyGolovnin also coordinated the search during his voyage around-the-world on the...
Gertsyk Alexander von Güldenstubbe August Neidhardt von Gneisenau VasilyGolovnin Vladimir Gorbatovsky Eugène Goüin Ivan Grigorovich Oskar Gripenberg...
mentioned having the name "Kapihe". He is recorded as guiding Russian VasilyGolovnin in 1818 and French explorers Louis de Freycinet and Camille de Roquefeuil...
time ITAR-TASS Tokyo correspondent VasilyGolovnin. She was distantly related to the Russian explorer VasilyGolovnin. Although her first languages were...
circumnavigations followed, notably those led by Otto Kotzebue, Ferdinand Wrangel, VasilyGolovnin, and Fyodor Litke. These voyages brought multiple discoveries in Alaska...
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