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Even today people are fascinated by his achievements as a natural scientist, explorer, researcher, adventurer, geologist and humanist. Von Humboldt is widely recognized as the founder of modern regional studies. He explored the then unknown Central American countries, studied the geographical distribution of plants for an entire continent and started the popularization of science. In doing so he anticipated an ecological view of nature and an understanding of the impact of technology on society.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            From the beginning, von Humboldt attempted to understand, reflect and explain nature as a whole. Therefore, his famous volume \u2018\n            <jats:italic>Kosmos<\/jats:italic>\n            \u2019 bears the subtitle \u2018\n            <jats:italic>Outline of a physical survey of the World<\/jats:italic>\n            \u2019. If nothing else, this work was the result of his almost unbelievable enthusiasm to devote his life to the study and interpretation of nature regardless of the necessary effort and exertion required.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>From his childhood days, von Humboldt felt the urge to travel to faraway regions and countries seldom visited by other Europeans. He wanted to visit and explore Asia, particularly India and then Siberia, and the New World so that he could compare the Andes with the Himalayas, the Venezuelan Llanos with the Siberian steppes. Unfortunately, he was prevented from going to India. But a quarter of a century after finishing his journey to America (1799\u20131804) he received an offer from the Russian minister of finance, Count Georg of Cancrin, to lead a nine-month expedition through the Russian empire. The expedition started out in April 1829 accompanied by the mineralogist Gustav Rose and the botanist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. In late December von Humboldt returned to Germany.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>Not only had the team covered a distance of 19 000 kilometres but they had also made a wealth of invaluable scientific discoveries. At the same time, relationships were established with Russia which proved very favourable for subsequent explorers.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>Since 1993, the German Association of Graduates and Friends of Moscow Lomonosow University (DAMU) has been active in reviving traditional Russian\u2013German relationships by recalling and acknowledging German explorers and researchers in Russia. To date five excursions following von Humboldt's footsteps into Russia have taken place.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1144\/sp287.13","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,11,28]],"date-time":"2007-11-28T21:34:17Z","timestamp":1196285657000},"page":"161-175","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Alexander von Humboldt in Russia: the 1829 expedition"],"prefix":"10.1144","volume":"287","author":[{"given":"F.","family":"Naumann","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Chemnitz University of Technology, Department of History, D-09107 Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany (e-mail: )"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1881","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,9,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_1","first-page":"229","article-title":"On the Journey of Mr. von Humboldt in Russia","volume":"2","author":"Anon","year":"1830","unstructured":"AnonMensenin N. 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