Background
His father, Lev Brusilov, was also a naval officer
His father, Lev Brusilov, was also a naval officer
In 1912 Brusilov led a maritime expedition which aimed to explore and map a route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific via a northeast passage, also called the Northern Sea Route. His expedition disappeared almost without a trace, and despite searches its ultimate fate was unknown until 2010. In 1910–1911, Georgy Brusilov participated in a hydrographic expedition on icebreakers Taymyr and Vaygach, visiting the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea.
In 1912, Brusilov led the Brusilov Expedition on the brig Saint Anna, which aimed to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific by the Northern Sea Route.
She was the second Russian woman to go to the Arctic. By mid-September, Captain Brusilov"s expedition reached the Kara Sea through the Yugorsky Shar Strait, but soon became icebound near the western shores of the Yamal Peninsula and was drifting helplessly towards the north.
Brusilov wintered in the hope of seeing his ship freed in the following year"s thaw. However, the summer of 1913 came and the Saint Anna remained locked in sea ice.
lieutenant drifted far north with the pack ice, leaving the Kara Sea and entering the Arctic Ocean.
Captain Brusilov became ill and was bedridden for months. In the spring of 1914, some of the Street.Anna"s crew, led by Brusilov"s lieutenant, Valerian Albanov, abandoned the ship and tried to walk south over the drifting ice. The only two survivors – navigator Valerian Albanov and sailor Alexander Konrad – managed to reach Cape Flora in Franz Josef Land.
There they were rescued by the expedition of Georgy Sedov on the ship Saint Foka.
The almost impossible task of searching for Brusilov (and geologist Vladimir Rusanov from another expedition), was entrusted to Otto Sverdrup with the ship Eklips in 1914-1915. His efforts were unsuccessful and the fate of the Brusilov expedition was unknown until 2010.
Later in 2010, explorers announced the finding of a crew-member"s logbook and various other artifacts in the shores of Franz Josef Land.
One of the members of the expedition was a 22-year-old nurse, Yerminia Zhdanko, daughter of a general who had been a hero in the Russo-Japanese War. Many members of the crew succumbed to scurvy. In 2010, explorers announced that they had found the bones of a crew-member of Brusilov"s expedition.
