Fyodor Fyodorovich Matyushkin (russian: Матюшкин, Федор Федорович; - ) was a Russian

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, Admiral (1867), and a close friend of Aleksandr Pushkin, who studied with him at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. ''Словари и энциклопедии на Академике.'
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/ref> Matyushkin graduated from Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in 1817. After having volunteered for the navy, he participated in Vassili Golovnin's world cruise on the ship ''Kamchatka'' in 1817–1819. In 1820–1824, Matyushkin took part in Ferdinand Wrangel's

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expedition to the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea. They explored and mapped Chetyrekhstolbovoy Island, the southernmost of the Medvyezhi Islands, then an almost unknown island group. Following this survey Matyushkin explored on his own a vast tundra area east of the Kolyma river and collected valuable

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data. In 1825–1827, he joined

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in his world cruise on the ship ''Krotky''. In 1828–1829, Matyushkin took part in the

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, commanding different military vessels. In 1835, he served in the Black Sea Fleet, in 1850—1851 — in the Baltic Fleet. Starting from 1852, Matyushkin worked in the

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as an admiral. In 1858, he was appointed Chairman of the Naval Scientific Committee. In 1861, Matyushkin became a senator. In 1825, before Matyushkin's second round-the-world voyage, Pushkin addressed him in his poem "October 19th".ДРУГ ПУШКИНА Ф. Ф. МАТЮШКИН — ДЕКАБРИСТ
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Matyushkin, Fyodor Explorers from the Russian Empire Russian and Soviet polar explorers Chukchi Sea East Siberian Sea 1799 births 1872 deaths Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum alumni Imperial Russian Navy admirals Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery