Bering

Kapitan-komandor Vitus Bering (1681–1741) rodilsya v Danii, no po pravu voshel v istoriyu Rossii kak velikiy puteshestvennik, otkryvatel novyh zemel. Postupiv esche v yunosti na russkuyu sluzhbu, on mnogo let byl vernym pomoschnikom Petra Velikogo v sozdanii voenno-morskogo flota. Nezadolgo do smerti imperator doveril emu vazhnuyu zadachu — issledovanie vostochnyh rubezhey Rossii i poisk proliva, ...