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November 24, 1835 FP Wrangell traveled with his family from New Archangel on the ship "Sith" and going to the Monterey (18, 21 December 1835), arrived January 1, 1836 in the port of San Blas on the Pacific coast Mexico. From San Blas F. Wrangell taken riding extremely difficult at the time, the transition to Tepic, thence through Guadalajara reached the capital of Mexico. Then he came to the port of Veracruz on the Atlantic Coast and in New York he returned to Europe. June 4, 1836, FP Wrangel was already in St. Petersburg. , So fast at the time of the move to the capital of Russian America, traveling to Mexico exotic and little-known country, aroused great interest in different circles of St. Petersburg and other cities. Evidence of this is a letter KT Khlebnikov, one of the directors of the Russian-American Company, who wrote Wrangell July 27, 1836, Admiral MP Lazarev, "expresses the desire to know more about your curious journey through Mexico and New York; but I do not know anything else, as the name of the places through which passed, and is therefore not possible to deliver the light little essay more entertaining subjects. " The editor of the newspaper "The Northern Bee" NI Grech asked Wrangell write an essay about his trip. Essays Wrangell called "Journey from Sitka to St. Petersburg" very soon appeared in the "Northern Bee". They were published in the newspaper in October and November 1836 and then NI Grech published them in book form under a new name: "Essay on the way from Sitka to St. Petersburg F. Wrangel". In its genre book Wrangell travel story is very popular in Russian literature of those years. The essay was written in the form of a letter to an old friend welcome, which is often used by Russian writers 20-30-ies of XIX century.