Alexey Vladimirovich Vysheslavtsev (1831-1888) - a famous writer, art critic and traveler, a doctor by profession. At the end of the course at Moscow University, he was appointed a doctor in the Poltava Infantry Regiment and was with him during the Crimean campaign on the Malakhov Kurgan, as a result of which a number of articles appeared in Sovremennik and Russian Bulletin. He worked as a doctor on the Plastun clipper and sailed in 1857-1860. around the world. Impressed by this journey, the book Essays with a Pen and Pencil from Circumnavigation appeared (St. Petersburg, 1862, 1867), which was often compared with Goncharov's Frigate Pallas. The book was the first major publication of the author in print.