Abstract This article explores the networking activities of Count Nikolai Rumiantsev and Adam von Krusenstern, his close collaborator. The visionary Russian statesman and the celebrated navigator were deeply involved in northern exploration. They funded and organized a circumnavigating voyage by the brig Rurik in 1815–18, with the explicit goals of searching for a northern passage between Eurasia and North America and conducting a series of scientific investigations in the Bering Strait region. This private exploratory enterprise profoundly influenced the exchange of information and reconfigured both local and global networks of knowledge. Based on an analysis of private correspondence, printed accounts and journal articles related to the Rurik's expedition, this study sheds light on how this transnational network of actors emerged and functioned, and how it promoted a lively circulation of information about exploration in the Bering Strait region in the 1810s–1820s. I argue that a complex interplay of geopolitical and intellectual competition, with exchanges, collaborations and coordination among various actors (e.g. patrons, navigators, scholars, entrepreneurs and publishers), stimulated further research on the global ocean's northern spaces and laid the foundations of marine science.

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走向未来：北太平洋的双桅船留里克号和新兴的海洋科学

摘要 本文探讨了尼古拉·鲁米安采夫伯爵和他的亲密合作者亚当·冯·克鲁森斯特恩 (Adam von Krusenstern) 的网络活动。富有远见的俄罗斯政治家和著名的航海家深入参与了北方探险。1815-18 年，他们资助并组织了留里克双桅帆船的环球航行，其明确目标是寻找欧亚大陆和北美之间的北部通道，并在白令海峡地区进行一系列科学调查。这家私人探索企业深刻地影响了信息交流并重新配置了本地和全球知识网络。根据对与留里克远征有关的私人信件、印刷账目和期刊文章的分析，这项研究揭示了这个跨国参与者网络是如何出现和运作的，以及它如何促进了 1810 年代至 1820 年代白令海峡地区勘探信息的活跃传播。我认为，地缘政治和智力竞争的复杂相互作用，以及各种行为者（例如赞助人、航海者、学者、企业家和出版商）之间的交流、合作和协调，刺激了对全球海洋北部空间的进一步研究，并奠定了海洋科学的基础。 .