The book "Frigate "Pallas"" by the great Russian writer Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) is a unique phenomenon of its kind. None of the classics of Russian literature, neither before nor after Goncharov, participated in such a journey. The same Russians who happened to go this way: from Russia through Britain and South Africa to Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, China, the Philippines, were not classics of Russian literature...