The book, in two parts, was written by Grigory Krayevsky (1747-1802, St Petersburg) and published in St Petersburg, by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, in the year 1800. It is an account of Krayevsky's trip to Malta in 1785 as a translator "in the non-hazardous expedition" of Count Paul Martinovitch Skavronsky (1757-1793), who was then the Russian