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(1889) Author: Peter Lauridsen
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Bering’s proposition should be executed, and charged the
Senate to take the necessary steps for this purpose. The
Senate, presided over by Ivan Kiriloff, an enthusiastic
admirer of Peter the Great, acted with dispatch. On
May 2, it promulgated two ukases, in which it declared
the objects of the expedition, and sought to indicate the
necessary means. Although the Senate here in the main
followed Bering’s own proposition and made a triple
expedition (an American, a Japanese, and an Arctic), it
nevertheless betrayed a peculiar inclination to burden the
chief of the expedition with tasks most remote from his
own original plans. It directed him not only to explore
the Shantar Islands and reach the Spanish possessions in
America, something that Bering had never thought of,
but also included in its ukase a series of recommendations
for the development of Siberia,—recommendations which
Bering had previously made to the government, and
which had already provoked some definite efforts, as the
exiled Pissarjeff, a former officer of the Senate, had been
removed to Okhotsk to develop that region and extend
the maritime relations on the Pacific.

He seems, however, not to have accomplished
anything, and the Senate thought it feasible to burden
Bering with a part of this task. He was directed to
supply Okhotsk with more inhabitants, to introduce
cattle-raising on the Pacific coast, to found schools in
Okhotsk for both elementary and nautical instruction, to
establish a dock-yard in this out-of-the-way corner, to
transport men and horses to Yudomskaya Krest, and to
establish iron-works at Yakutsk, Udinsk, and other places.
But this was simply the beginning of the avalanche, and

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