Alexander Kolchak
The Russian rescue expedition of 1903 was commissioned by the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences to rescue the groups of Baron Eduard Toll and Alexei Byalynitsky-Birulya that were left near New Siberian Islands by the Russian polar expedition of 1900–1902. The expedition was organized and led by Alexander Kolchak, then a young researcher and lieutenant of the Russian Navy, and later a ruler of Russia.