58 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



St. Petersburg, 1839, Vol. I, pp. 323-325. He also surveyed about 

 Unga and Popof islands in the Shumagins in 1837. See Russian 

 Hydrographic chart 1379 for his map. 



WOSNESENSKI, 1842-43. 



Ilia G. Wosnesenski was sent in 1839 to Alaska, by and at the cost 

 of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, to make col- 

 lections, lie sailed with Etolin, who was succeeded in command by 

 Kadnikof, on the Russian American Company's ship Nikolai, from 

 Cronstadt on August 19, 1839, and reached Sitka on May 1, 1840. In 

 1840-41 he was on the coast of lower and upper California, in 1842-43 

 in the Aleutian islands, in Bering sea and Kotzebue sound, in 1844 

 in the Kurile islands, and in 184.5-1848 about the Okhotsk sea and 

 in Kamchatka. He returned to Sitka at the end of July, 1849, 

 and sailed thence for St. Petersburg with Captain Riedell on the ship 

 Atka. Mining engineer Doroshin returned on the same voyage. 

 (Grewingk, pp. 419-420.) 



Zagoskin, 1842-1844. 



Lieut. Laurenti Alexief Zagoskin made explorations on the lower 

 Yukon, the Kuskokwim, and in Norton sound in 1842-1844, under a 

 commission from the Russian American Company. Of this explora- 

 tion he published an account, in Russian, in two volumes, at St. Peters- 

 burg, 1847-48. An account of it, and also an extract from Zago- 

 skin's diary, accompanied by a map, was published by S. I. Zelanie in 

 the Journal of the Russian Geographic Society, 1849, Vol. I, 

 pp. 211-2GG. 



Zarembo, 1834-1838. 



Capt. -Lieut. Dionysius Fedorovich Zarembo, in command of the 

 Russian American Company's ship Prince Alexander, sailed from Cron- 

 stadt on August 14, 1840, and, going via Cape Horn, arrived at Sitka 

 on April 3, 1841. With him on the voj^age went Lieutenant Zagoskin. 

 Zarembo had previously been in the Russian colonies, having first gone 

 out as pilot in 1816 with Ponafidin in the Suworof and again in 1819 

 with the same officer in the Borodino. He surveyed Wrangell harbor 

 in 1834 and Woewodski harbor in 1838. His maps are shown as insets 

 on Russian Hydrographic chart 1390, published in 1848. For a very 

 brief and unofficial account of his voyage see Journal Russian Hydro- 

 graphic Department, 1850, Vol. VIII, pp. 139-140. Zarembo, in com- 

 mand of tlie l)rig Ch/eJuujof, founded the present town of Wrangell in 

 the spring of 1834, building there a stockade or fort, which after hini 

 was named Dionysius. 



