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- ↑ Around the World on the Kamchatka, 1817-1819 by V. M. Golovnin and Ella Lury Wiswell
- ↑ Matiushkin, Fyodor F. (1971). "A Journal of a Round-the-World Voyage on the Sloop Kamchatka, under the Command of Captain Golovnin". To the Shores of the New World: From Unpublished Writings of Russian Travelers in the Early Nineteenth Century: 66–70.
- ↑ "Napoleon in Captivity: The Reports of Count Balmain Russian Commissioner on the Island of St. Helena 1816-1820". Napoleonic-literature.com. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- ↑ von Schantz, Johan Eberhard (in Finnish)
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