Site of Napoleon's Final Exile
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	Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern (1770–1846), also known as Adam Johann von Krusenstern Puteshestvie vokrug sveta v 1803, 4, 5 i 1806 godakh [Voyage Round the World in 1803, 1804, 1805 & 1806] St. Petersburg: Morskaia Tipografiia, 1809–13 NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division The first Russian circumnavigation of the world was organized and led by Adam Johann von Krusenstern, a Baltic German nobleman from the province of Estland (present-day Estonia). His ship reached the Pacific by sailing southward on the Atlantic and around Cape Horn, and returned across the Indian Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope to the Atlantic. He described for his Russian readers his principal ports of call, among them St. Helena, where he stopped on his return. He found the island a safe port where he could easily obtain supplies. “Every kind of provision may be obtained here, particularly the best kinds of garden-stuffs…. Porter and wine, especially madeira, were in great abundance, as well as all sorts of ship provisions, such as salt meat, peas, butter, and even naval stores.” Located 1,200 miles off the southwest coast of Africa, St. Helena later served as Napoleon's remote home for the last years of his life.