1725 Czar Peter the Great commissions Vitus Bering
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| 1725 Czar Peter the Great commissions Vitus Bering to sail east from Kamchatka Peninsula.
Image: Bust of Vitus Bering. Forensic reconstruction of explorer Vitus Bering. Reconstruction by V. N. Zvyagin, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Moscow. |
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