Fregat Pallada, or The Frigate Pallada, is Goncharov's account of a voyage he made as secretary on a Russian naval mission to Japan in the early 1850s. The journey takes the ship around Europe, Africa and Asia, and the author describes the sea, the ports, the weather, his shipmates and the peoples and customs he meets.
Written in a relaxed, observant and often humorous style, it is both a travel book and a portrait of an educated Russian meeting the wider world. It is valued for its lively detail and for its glimpses of a time when such distant journeys were rare. This edition is in Russian.