250 Years of German-Russian research
The exhibition 250 Years of German-Russian Research on the Ecology and Cultures of the Peoples of Kamchatka organized by the Foundation of Siberian Cultures was shown in Kamchatka July-September 2010. This exhibition was dedicated notably to the intensive German-Russian scientific relations to explore Kamchatka in the 18th and 19th centuries. Collaborative projects with Russian colleagues have tried to revive this tradition since the 1990s. The exhibition catalogue in Russian included previously unpublished watercolours by Baron Friedrich Heinrich von Kittlitz painted during his travels in Kamchatka in 1827-1828. Copies of these pictures lent by the Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Department of Russian Academy of Sciences in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski were shown during the exhibition.
Adalbert von Chamisso was accompanied during his voyage to the Bering Strait in 1817 by Louis Choris, whose lithographs from the book Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, avec des portraits de sauvages d’Amérique, d’Asie, d’Afrique, et des Îles du Grand Océan (1822) represent other early illustrations of these expeditions.
The journal Karaginskie Vesti published an article on the exhibition held at the House of Culture in Ossora (Karaginski District). The excerpts from TV programs shown here show views of the subsequent exhibition at the central House of Culture Seroglazka in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski on September 9, 2010.