Editing Vasily Golovnin (section)

==Later career and death==
In 1821, Golovnin was appointed assistant director of the Russian Naval College, and later, in 1823, General [[Quartermaster]] of the Fleet.<ref name="Wreck"/>
A talented administrator, Golovnin successfully managed the activities of the [[shipbuilding]], commissariat, and [[artillery]] departments.<ref name="Wreck"/> Under his supervision, over two hundred ships were built, including the first Russian [[steamship]]s.<ref name="Wiswell"/> Golovnin also served as a mentor to numerous Russian navigators, including the aforementioned Fyodor Litke and Ferdinand von Wrangel.<ref name="Wiswell"/>

Golovnin died of [[cholera]] during an [[epidemic]] that swept through the city of Saint Petersburg in 1831.<ref name="Wiswell"/><ref name="Wreck"/><ref>Novikov, Nikolai (1945). ''Russian Voyages Around the World,'' p. 98. New York: Hutchinson</ref>