About the book: 1980 / Shortly before his death, Peter I conceives an expedition that should finally find out for sure whether Asia and America are connected somewhere in the north. But the voyage of Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov on the boat “St. Gabriel” in 1728 did not finally resolve this issue. In May 1741, Bering and Chirikov again went out to the ocean on the packet boats St. Peter and St. Paul. Gleb Golubev’s story, written on the basis of archival documents, tells about this second voyage of A.I. Chirikov. Magazine version.