Brief biography Pronchishchev

Memory Biography Polar Traveler Vasily Pronchishchev from those who say - collector of the Russian land: a participant in the Great Northern Expedition under the command of Vitus Bering, a researcher of huge expanses, which will subsequently receive the names of Taimyr and Archipelago of the Northern Earth. Biography of Vasily Vasilyevich is a model of thirst for knowledge and self -sacrifice in the name of new discoveries.

Childhood and youth, as the researchers found out, the noble family of Pronchishchev comes from Poland, and the first references to him appeared in the 15th century. Vasily was born in the year at the Tarbeevo family estate near Tarusa, in the Kaluga province, and became the fifth of the six sons. At the age of 13, the boy entered the Moscow school of mathematical and navigation sciences, from where he went to the St.

Petersburg Naval Academy a year later. The future midshipman studied with Semyon Chelyuskin and the Laptev brothers, who will subsequently also glorify Russian research science. In the year, Vasily was included in the second Kamchatka expedition under the leadership of the captain-commander Bering. The task of travelers included, speaking in modern language, compiling cards, searching for minerals, as well as sites for ships.

Pronchishchev was instructed to command the Len-Senisei detachment and study the coast west of the mouth of Lena. The discoveries of the discoverers hit the road on a single ship Yakutsk, the team consisted of 57 people. In June, the expedition went down to Lena to the ocean, studying the currents and winds along the way, measuring the depth and performing cartographic shooting.

Vasily Vasilievich geographical science is owe to the detailed card of the delta and the channel of this river. Winter bad weather stopped further research, the campaign continued next year. The first discovery was the island of Transfiguration at the mouth of the Hutanga River. Through three hundred years, descendants will establish that this island is the roy of walruses and one of the largest places of bird nesting in the Laptev Sea.

Further, the sailors only managed to record events. Pronchishchev’s detachment put on the map the kilometer line of the east coast of Taimyr and part of the Laptevs Sea from the Faddei Bay to the Lenskaya Delta, the bay itself with the same group of islands near the northeast coast of the peninsula and the extreme northern mining system of Russia - Byrarang.

In m, the part of the Faddei Bay is included in the Big Arctic Reserve. The route of the expedition of Vasily Pronchishchev, thanks to the research of the Pronchishchev team, became known to the archipelags of Peter and Samuel, the latter is now called the islands of Komsomolskaya Pravda. As it was later established, “Yakutsk” did not reach the islands that were open two hundred years later and were called the Northern Earth Archipelago.

Pronchishchev could become the discoverer of the northern tip of Eurasia, but the cape prevented a poor visibility. This honor fell to the share of the case of Vasily, the navigator of his ship Semyon Chelyuskin, who reached Taimyr’s tip in the year and called Cape East-Several. Personal life on the map of the Far North, off the east coast of Taimyr, is the Bay of Maria Pronchishcheva, named after the faithful wife and participant of the expedition of Vasily Vasilyevich.

The fact that the wife of the researcher was called Tatyana turned out only in the year, when the corresponding document was discovered in the Central State Archive of ancient acts. The Bay of Maria Pronchishcheva Tatyana Fedorovna, nee Kondyreva, is considered the first woman-polar traveler, long before the wives of the Decembrists who decided to divide with her husband all the hardships and hardships of long marine wanderings.

According to individual researchers, the family of Pronchishchev and Kondrevykh lived nearby, and therefore the children have been familiar from childhood.

In addition, Uncle Vasily married aunt Tatyana. Both of both fathers died early, which may have caused rapprochement. All the same archives confirm that young people got married in great love. Vasily Pronchishchev and Tatyana Pronchishcheva, the participation of the only woman in the polar campaign was initially called into question, since the marine law forbade the ladies to be part of the crews.

But it was the crew that stood up for Tatyana in front of the captain, assuring that the higher authorities would not recognize anything. According to other sources, the official permission to participate in Tatyana in the expedition was issued by commander Vitus Bering, and only because Pronchishcheva was an educated nobleman and knew the language of the northern peoples, which means that her presence on board would be useful.

The icebreaker "Vasily Pronchishchev" The woman showed the talent of the negotiator with the local population, when the crew had to stay for the winter in the village of Ust-Olenik in the year. Residents did not rejoice at the newly arrived and explained that they were afraid to become infected from them with some unknown disease. In fact, as Pronchishchev believed, the Yakuts and Evenki were afraid that the newcomers would rob and ruin the village.

The presence of Tatyana convinced the locals of peaceful intentions of the guests. In addition, she helped her husband keep notes on the native stories.The death of what happened in the summer of the year off the coast of the Gulf of the Hutanga was miraculously preserved by the preserved ship magazine. The team traveled to the Yakutsk oak-intercourse, even on such a ship, researchers were not afraid to go far to the north.

Once in the ice, Pronchishchev decided to get into the winter and on Yalbot went to scout the path. What happened later remained unknown. A fragment of the ship's magazine Vasily Pronchishchev from the records in the magazine made by the navigator Chelyuskin, it is clear that Vasily broke his leg, but managed to return to the ship, where he lost consciousness and died a few days later.

At first, the cause of the death of the commander of the Len-Senisei detachment of the Second Kamchatka expedition was considered scurvy. Only in the 20th century, when the polar explorers, led by Dmitry Shparo, opened the graves of Pronchishchevs and reburied, it was established that Vasily died of fat embolism, and simply from the blockage of blood vessels caused by a heavy fracture.

Two weeks after the death of her husband, Tatyana Pronchishcheva was gone. The spouses were buried on a high snack near the settlement of Ust-Olenok, in the place where the river flows into the Arctic Ocean. The graves of brave pioneers were first supported by the exiles, then subsequent expeditions. In Soviet times, monuments, memorial boards began to erect. The last grave complex was built on the initiative of the famous polar explorer Dmitry Shparo.