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| − | Voin Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian naval officer and captain of the ''Vostok'', a steamship schooner dispatched in [[1853]] by [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] to Kushunkotan, on Aniva Bay, at the southern end of [[Sakhalin]], to check on fortifications established there by [[Gennady Nevelskoy]], as a means of claiming Sakhalin for Russia and defending that claim against the Japanese. | + | Voin Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian naval officer and captain of the ''[[Vostok]]'', a steamship schooner dispatched in [[1853]] by [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] to Kushunkotan, on Aniva Bay, at the southern end of [[Sakhalin]], to check on fortifications established there by [[Gennady Nevelskoy]], as a means of claiming Sakhalin for Russia and defending that claim against the Japanese. |
He was the brother of the famous composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and the former [[Ainu]] village of Kushunkotan on Sakhalin is today named Korsakov, albeit after someone else, Mikhail Korsakov, who was Governor General of Eastern Siberia at that time. | He was the brother of the famous composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and the former [[Ainu]] village of Kushunkotan on Sakhalin is today named Korsakov, albeit after someone else, Mikhail Korsakov, who was Governor General of Eastern Siberia at that time. | ||
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*Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 168. | *Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 168. | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:58, 1 December 2019
Voin Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian naval officer and captain of the Vostok, a steamship schooner dispatched in 1853 by Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin to Kushunkotan, on Aniva Bay, at the southern end of Sakhalin, to check on fortifications established there by Gennady Nevelskoy, as a means of claiming Sakhalin for Russia and defending that claim against the Japanese.
He was the brother of the famous composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and the former Ainu village of Kushunkotan on Sakhalin is today named Korsakov, albeit after someone else, Mikhail Korsakov, who was Governor General of Eastern Siberia at that time.
References
- Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), Escape from Impasse, International House of Japan (2006), 168.
