Tunguska - reaction of the Tzar?

[Nathalie]

Hello,

I am curious, were there any notice or comment in Saint Petersburg / Tsarskoye Selo, about the famous Tunguska-event in 1908?

(more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event)

[charley]

I cannot remember where I read this, but the Tsar did send out an expedition. I think that they never returned, but I do not recall what happened at that point. I thought the light could be seen all the way across Russia.

[nena]

Good question....It's been one century....I have heard something like Charley heard.

[RomanovsFan4Ever]

Me too.
The big explosion of Tunguska is still a mystery....Oh, and that was on June 30.

[RomanovsFan4Ever]

I read about the expedition send by the Tsar to the place of explosion, but I never found anything that spoke in detail about the expedition, I would like to know more.
Was found a crater that confirms the theories about the impact of a meteorite, but many years later the expedition.

[Alixz]

http://www.psi.edu/projects/siberia/siberia.html


At 7:17 AM on the morning of June 30, 1908, a mysterious explosion occurred in the skies over Siberia. It was caused by the impact and breakup of a large meteorite, at an altitude roughly six kilometers in the atmosphere. Realistic pictures of the event are unavailable. However, Russian scientists collected eyewitness accounts of the event. I believe that we now know enough about large impacts to "decode" the subjective descriptions of the witnesses and create realistic views of this historic asteroid impact as seen from different distances.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7470283.stm


The Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik visited the region in 1921, interviewed local eyewitnesses and soon realised that a meteorite must have been the cause.

He persuaded the Russian authorities to fund an expedition to the region in 1927, during which he was able to explore the vast zones of fallen trees.

So far, I can't find any reference to Nicholas Ii sending out an expedition.

[RomanovsFan4Ever]

So far, I can't find any reference to Nicholas Ii sending out an expedition.

I read it on an Italian scientific magazine, but I can't say whether the source was actually reliable, I couldn't find any information on Internet.