Thrilling search for the easternmost Russia of Tsar Peter

To decipher the mystery of the easternmost tip of Russia, Peter the Great had to hire a Danish seafarer named Vitus Bering (1681-1741) to survey from the coast of Siberia from the Kamchatka peninsula to the north.

Russia is very big. There is an interesting historical story related to this, that is that Peter the Great (1672-1725) – the great tsar in Russian history – did not know how far his country stretched. And he was determined to find the eastern end of the territory. To decipher the mystery of the easternmost tip of Russia, Peter the Great had to hire a Danish seafarer named Vitus Bering (1681-1741) to survey from the coast of Siberia from the Kamchatka peninsula to the north. In 1828, Bering sailed into a narrow strait separating Siberia and Alaska. The strait was later named after him, the Bering Strait. Continuing north, Bering determined that the eastern end of Siberia was a headland jutting into the strait. Bering suspected that there must be some land further east, but it was not until his second voyage in 1741 that he first saw the Alaskan coast across the strait. During the first half of the 19th century, the Russians established control over Alaska, making this frozen land the easternmost part of the Russian empire. By 1867, US Secretary of State William H. Seward was negotiating to buy Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million. The easternmost of Russia now retreats to the Siberian tip that Bering once discovered. Today, evidence of Russian settlements still exists throughout Southeast Alaska, as evidenced by Russian landmarks and a number of churches built by the Russians when they were still living there. here. Invite readers to watch the video: President Vladimir Putin after 2 decades leading Russia | VTV TSTC.