August 27 in #Russia: 1728 — The First Kamchatka Expedition: Vitus Bering, the navigator, turned back after passing through the strait between Eurasia and America. 1760 — Empress Elizabeth issued a decree banning bribery among officials. 1783 — An expedition led by merchant-entrepreneur and explorer Grigory Shelekhov set sail from Okhotsk to the shores of North America on three galiots.