This book is about how in Russia they were looking for ways to the southern half of the globe; how Peter I and Catherine II equipped expeditions to sail around Africa; like exiled rebels and seditious people, sailed from Kamchatka to Europe, performed, without knowing it, the Petrovsky project; and about how the Russians saw the southern seas and the tip of the Old World in those ancient times. According to documents of the XVIII century. the authors supplement and partly repeat the story they began in the book "The Appearance of a Distant Country."