Geografia di un’altra Russia: la Kamčatka di S.P. Krašeninnikov

• Main Author: Daniela Cesareo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Belarusian; Bulgarian; Czech; English; Italian; Macedonian; Polish; Russian; Slovak; Slovenian; Ukrainian
• Published: Aracne editrice 2016
• Subjects: kamchatka; krasheninnikov; expedition; travel literature; Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages; PG1-9665; Kamčatka; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/9180b0aee8b2472da42f315bf1713431

This paper deals with the Second Kamchatka expedition (1733-1743), and in particular with one of its participants: the naturalist and geographer Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov, author of the expedition report Opisanie Zemli Kamchatki [Description of the land of Kamchatka]. Krašeninnikov shaped his idea of life, history and knowledge thanks to this long adventurous journey, that cannot be considered as an arid geographical reconnaissance. In fact, this journey has in itself the official side of the XVIII century geographical explorations, but also the private one of a man who took some big risks to expand his horizon and to clarify his position in history and the position of his Country in the world.