by Vitas White.

Beirut was invited by Peter I to join the then newly established Russian Navy as one of the captains of which he achieved outstanding achievements in the war against Sweden, and subsequently participated in the war against Turkey. He married a Russian, and in 1715 he returned to Denmark for the last time. In 1725 he, on Peter's order, began to visit the northern shore of Siberia. In 1728 he arrived at the east end of Asia. In 1730 he returned to St. Petersburg, when he was severely ill, and during this period of his expedition his five children died. In 1735 he was again ordered to return to the Ocean Sea, and in 1740 he established Petropavlovsk, and in 1741 he moved from here to America. A storm separated the two ships he commanded,
Today, the Strait of Bayonne, the Sea of Bayonne, the Island of Bayonne and the Strait of Bayonne are all named after him.