title: Adam Laxman’s Expedition in the Colonial Conflict in the North Pacific
abstract: This article examines the history of the emergence of official Russian-Japanese relations in the late eighteenth century. The work focuses on unique archival materials from the SARC, RSA of the Navy, MD RSL, RSAAA, etc. The article refers to collections of documents, works by V. N. Berkha and E. A. Bolkhovitinov, and modern authors. The author analyses the first contacts between Russia and Japan, which became the prerequisites for the 1792–1793 expedition of Adam Laxman to Japan. Also, he studie
journal: Quaestio Rossica