Founding Members of the Russian Geographical Society

Founding Members of the Russian Geographical Society

Founding Members of the Russian Geographical Society

List of founding members of the Russian Geographical Society:

• Arseniev, Konstantin Ivanovich (1789-1865), academician. Geographer, historian, statistician.
• Berg, Fedor Fedorovich (1793-1874), Count, Field Marshal. Governor General of Finland. The last governor of the Kingdom of Poland . Honorary President of the Nikolaev Military Academy . Member of the State Council of the Russian Empire.
• Baer, ​​Karl Maksimovich (1792-1876), academician. One of the founders of embryology and comparative anatomy , president of the Russian Entomological Society .
• Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich (1795-1870), Baron, Admiral. Polar explorer managing the Ministry of the Sea .
• Vronchenko, Mikhail Pavlovich (1801-1852), Major General. Orientalist, geographer, military topographer and surveyor, human intelligence officer of the Russian army, prose writer and poet and translator.
• Gelmersen, Grigory Petrovich (1803–1885), baron, lieutenant general, academician. Founder of the Russian school of geological cartography , mining engineer, director of the Mining Institute .
• Dahl, Vladimir Ivanovich (1801-1872), corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. Ethnographer, doctor, writer and lexicographer, compiler of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language .
• Köppen, Peter Ivanovich (1793–1864), academician. Encyclopedic scientist: wrote works on history , geography , ethnography , demography and statistics .
• Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich (1770-1846), admiral. Head of the first Russian circumnavigation.
• Levshin, Alexei Iraklievich (1799-1879), statesman. Member of the State Council of the Russian Empire.
• Litke, Fyodor Petrovich (1797-1882), Count, Admiral. President of the Academy of Sciences, member of the State Council of the Russian Empire.
• Muravyov-Vilensky, Mikhail Nikolaevich (1796-1866), Count, General of Infantry. Minister of State Property, Member of the State Council of the Russian Empire.
• Odoevsky, Vladimir Fedorovich (1803-1869), Prince. Writer, philosopher, musicologist and music critic, public figure.
• Perovsky, Vasily Alekseevich (1794-1857), count, cavalry general.
• Rikord, Peter Ivanovich (1776-1855), admiral. Traveler, scientist, diplomat, writer, shipbuilder, statesman and public figure.
• Struve, Vasily Yakovlevich (1793-1864), astronomer. Founder and director of the Pulkovo Observatory.
• Chikhachev, Platon Aleksandrovich (1812-1892), a traveler in America and a participant in the Khiva expedition.