In some literary sources the authors artistically conjecturing the thoughts and feelings of Kruzenshtern, Lisyansky, other sailors in connection with Mulovsky's (ready-to-be but unsuccessful) expedition. If you follow the path of art modeling, it can be assumed, firstly, that there "syndrome of Mulovsky" ("may break at the last moment"), and, secondly, that "syndrome of Mulovsky" was one of the reasons for an independent (separate from Kruzenshtern) non-stop Lisyansky's ocean journey from Canton (China) to Portsmouth (England).
In 1796 ended the reign of Catherine II. After the failure of the expedition of Mulovsky real attempt to organize the circumnavigation was not renewed in period of the Empress.
Catherine II was replaced at the helm of state by Paul I (Pavel Petrovich). His reign was rather short and controversial. Relations with England became acute. Serious attempts to organize a circumnavigation were not undertaken in the period of his reign.
On 12 March 1801, Alexander I joined the Russian throne.
"Alexander I has put an end to the conflict in the relations with England and Spain - to the conflict, which has inflamed in recent years of the reign of Paul I. Alexander I signed at the same time confidential convention with France. This peace pause was demonstrating intention of Russia to withdraw from participation in Anglo-French military rivalry in Europe and to be engaged in the solution of problems of Russian economic life. This breather has been used for preparation and implementation of actions for strengthening of positions of Russia in the north of the Pacific Ocean and including for the organization of the First Russian round-the-world expedition" [1].
"In 1793, Kruzenshtern, Bering, Lisyansky and several other officers of the Russian Navy got a business trip to England. Mission lasted 6 years" [1].
Years of life of Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern: 1770 - 1846, Yuri Fyodorovich Lisyansky: 1773 - 1837. (We also inform you the years of life of Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov: 1764 - 1807).
During the "business trip", after the various events, Ivan F. Kruzenshtern has appeared in India, where he met with G. S. Lebedev, now recognized as one of the founders of Oriental studies in Russia.
"Having been called himself as Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev, he began to tell story of his the extraordinary life. (...) Lebedev asked Vorontsov to seek permission to equip three three-mast vessels under the Russian flag from Calcutta to Petersburg. (...) Kruzenshtern long pondered about what was heard. His plan, initially vague and unclear, has taken on an increasingly distinct shape" [3].
"On returning home, the Kruzenshtern is going to present his note to the President of the Collegium of Commerce P. P. [P. A.] Soimonov (...) ...That Soimonov had put forward the idea about expedition of Mulovsky. Kruzenshtern was hoping to find in face of Soimonov the like-minded man... (...) However, the Soimonov went to Moscow and died shortly thereafter" [1].
Speaking about the project of Ivan. F. Kruzenshtern, V. M. Pasetsky remarks:
"Not by chance, that it was greeted by the contemporaries as pamphlet. TThe highest stately (official) figures of St. Petersburg haven't risked to report completely on I.F. Krusenstern's notes either to Paul I, or to Aleksandr I - they were so dangerous by the liberty of ideas. Moreover, they [Kruzenstern's note, Kruzenstern's proposals] have been withdrawn from documents of government agencies and for the first time were found in personal archive of the seafarer, when materials for the scientific biography of I.F. Krusenstern were gathering" [1].
Here is how V. M. Pasetsky describes the text of the project that was found in the personal archive of the seafarer: "A note to the Minister of Commerce Soymonov. Written on board the Bombay ship under the command of Hamilton, with the project of organizing a Russian expedition in the interests of trade developing and enriching the country ". The document represents a copy of the manuscript in French with the corrections Kruzenstern (...) " [1].
"The project of logistics (sourcing) of the Russian North American colonies by sea across two oceans" has been submitted to the Government by the Minister of commerce, the count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev, famous the statesman of an era of Alexander I" [6].
3. Sphinx: one expedition, two circumnavigations. Plus the Embassy. Troyecentricity and energy of competition
Alaska - Aliska -Alooska...
Russian-American Company - is the creativity and is the exotica in the bureaucratic Order. A product of the unusual activity of the Emperor Paul I.
I will quote - almost completely - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE) (1969-1978):
'Russian-American Company
a trading company established in Russia on July 8(19), 1799, for the purpose of developing Russian America and the Kuril and other islands.
The Russian-American Company's board of directors, initially located in Irkutsk, was moved to St. Petersburg in 1800. The company received exclusive rights to all natural resources within the lands under its authority. It also received the right to organize expeditions, settle newly discovered lands, and trade with neighboring countries. It established a number of permanent settlements in Russian America, as well as shipyards, workshops, and other enterprises. From 1804 to 1840, with the assistance of the Russian government, it organized 25 expeditions, including 15 circumnavigations (for example, by I. F. Kruzenshtern and Iu. F. Lisianskii); it explored Alaska and helped colonize the island of Sakhalin and the Amur River region.
From 1824 the Russian-American Company's board of directors was located at 72 Moika in St. Petersburg. The Northern Society of Decembrists often held its meetings here. K. F. Ryleev, the company's director in 1824 and 1825, also lived in this building.
Throughout its existence, the Russian-American Company sponsored geographic and ethnographic studies of Russian America-for example, by M. D. Teben'kov, V. S. Khromchenko, A. K. Etolin, A. F. Kashevarov, L. A. Zagoskin, and I. G. Voznesenskii. It helped introduce grain and vegetable cultivation and cattle breeding in several areas.'[7].
After reading these phrases, I want to jokingly comment:
'Some board (of directors)... What for board? And where nobility, where serfs?"
And a similar article from the GSE (1926-1947) adds:
'In 1812, near the Bay of San Francisco was founded the first Russian settlement 'Ross' (Fort Ross). In 1816-18 the Russian-American trading company did attempt to place settlements in the Hawaiian Islands.'
It is difficult to imagine the Gogol "The Government Inspector" (Ревизор, Revizor) or the poem "Dead Souls" in relation to San Francisco or the Hawaiian Islands.
I will hypothesize, that and a fast Khlestakov, and an advanced one in the task of Chichikov after a a multi-day journey of land and sea (or only by sea) would come to the destination by other people ('Whither, then, are you speeding, bird sailboat? Whither? Answer me!').
They (Khlestakov and Chichikov) and in the Ross settlement or on the Hawaiian Islands would not meet the people who appeared in the works of Gogol.
But not all at once, at first it is necessary to understand. Shares, furs, incomes ... At the beginning, it seems, has increased prestige ... First everything looked attractively.