Nikolai Rezanov
Krusenstern and Captain Yury Nevelskoy of "Neva" prepared for the voyage by first serving with the British Royal Navy from 1793 to 1799 to build their naval skills. "Nadezhda" had a 58-member crew and carried 16 guns. She apparently sailed under the auspices of the Russian-American Company (RAC). As part of her circumnavigation she delivered RAC cargo to Kamchatka, and the first Russian embassy under Nikolai Rezanov to Japan. Another passenger was the nobleman and adventurer Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy. He managed so to annoy captain and crew that Krusenstern finally left him at Kamchatka.