Brusilov expedition

One of the members of the expedition was the second Russian woman to go to the Arctic, Yerminia Zhdanko, a 22-year-old nurse and daughter of a general of the Russo-Japanese War.

After a gruesome ninety-day ordeal owing to difficult ice conditions, only Albanov and Alexander Konrad survived to reach Northbrook Island, where they were rescued by the Svyatoy Foka of the Sedov expedition.

[2] In 1914–1915 Otto Sverdrup led a search-and-rescue expedition aboard the ship Eklips in the Kara Sea on behalf of the Russian Imperial Navy.

He aimed to find two missing arctic expeditions, those of Captain Brusilov on the Svyataya Anna and Vladimir Rusanov on the Gerkules, but found no trace of either.

Valerian Albanov made repeated requests to Arctic explorer and Admiral Alexander Kolchak to launch a search expedition for the Svyataya Anna.

In December 1919 Albanov traveled to Omsk to confer with Kolchak, but the political turmoil in Russia at the time made a relief mission impossible.