He made it ashore to central Alaska, and then sailed back to Kamchatka along the barren Aleutians, only to endure a hard winter on one of the islands, losing many men.
Bering, on the other hand, had worse luck. After the dreadful event, Chirikov hurriedly sailed back to Kamchatka. When they set off again in 1741, Chirikov reached the shore of the Alaskan panhandle only to have his search party ambushed and killed by the native Tlingits. In their initial 1729 expedition, the pair missed the Alaskan coast due to thick fog. The Eurasian empire looked to North America after reaching the Pacific Ocean in 1639 and occupying the Kamchatka Peninsula in the 1680s.įrom 1729 to 1741, the Russian court-sponsored the Danish explorer Vitus Bering and his Russian counterpart Aleksei Chirikov to begin the Russian search for North America. Petersburg hoped that its eastern expansion would also prove its cultural, political, and scientific belonging to Europe.
Although it initially went east with the hope of increasing its fur trade, the Russian imperial court in St.
Main articles: Russian America and Russian colonization of North AmericaĪs other European states expanded westward across the Atlantic Ocean, the Russian Empire went eastward and conquered the vast wilderness of Siberia.
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