In 1912, the sailing and steam schooner “St. Anna". This expedition was headed by naval lieutenant Georgy Lvovich Brusilov. Having sailed from St. Petersburg in the summer, already in October the ship was captured by ice off the coast of Yamal and began drifting north. Only two people returned to the mainland - navigator Valerian Albanov and sailor Alexander Konrad. Their four-hundred-kilometer journey through drifting ice to Franz Josef Land went down in the history of polar research. For the writer Veniamin Kaverin, Albanov became the prototype of navigator Klimov in the novel “Two Captains.” This edition includes two works - an investigative book by writer Mikhail Chvanov about the expedition of G. L. Brusilov and a book by navigator V. Albanov, which has long become a bibliographic rarity.