Vladimir Borovikovsky. Portrait of Captain 1st Rank Yury Lisyansky

Yury Fyodorovich Lisyansky (1773–1837) was the navigator who commanded the sloop "Neva" in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe. His portrait was painted in 1810 by Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky.

Lisyansky was born in Nizhyn. In 1793–1800 he trained on ships of the British navy and sailed off North America, in the West Indies, off South Africa and in India. In 1803–1806, together with Ivan Krusenstern, commander of the "Nadezhda", he sailed around the world. On the way home the "Neva" became the first ship in the history of navigation to sail non-stop from Canton to Portsmouth, and on 6 August 1806 she dropped anchor at Kronstadt. In 1809 Lisyansky was promoted to captain 1st rank and retired the same year; he published the account of his voyage in 1812 at his own expense.

In this half-length portrait the navigator wears a dark uniform with a gold epaulette and orders. He holds a pair of dividers, an unrolled sheet of paper lies before him, and behind him are a ship's rigging and the open sea. The portrait is painted in oil on canvas.