Ataman Dezhnev. Michenkov S.E.

The biography of an amazing person, an explorer and a sailor, the Siberian Cossack Semen Ivanovich Dezhnev (c. 1605-1673), a native of North Rus'. In the “rebel” and turning point for the young Russian state of the 17th century, he “with comrades” was the first to go through the final segment of the Northern Sea Route, rumored to Koche “Stone Nose”, from the Arctic Ocean went down to the Pacific, opening the spill between the two continents - Asia and America. He laid the first wintering on the Anadiri River, together with the Cossacks he chopped the first fortress. The author created a lively image of an energetic, entrepreneurial Siberian, whom fate did not surpassed either sadness, nor joy, or loss, no success, nor wealth obtained by honest labor, nor the love of a woman...