Please find below maps and images which - we hope - will shed some light on Benyovszky's adventurous life.
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Portrait and home.
A miniature portrait of Benyovszky, as published with the 1790 edition of his Memoirs (1790).
The Benyovszky family home in Vrbové, in around 1890
... and as it is now - a restaurant: front ...
...and rear.
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Editions.
the cover of the 1790 London edition of Benyovszky's Memoirs.
Editions were also printed in the Netherlands, Sweden, and several different ones in Germany. 
The French edition of 1791.
The German edition of 1791.
And the Polish edition of 1797.
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Artistic miscellany
An illustration from the 1790 London edition of Benyovszky's Memoirs. This depicts the (probably fictitious) scene of the attack by the St Peter and St Paul on the Formosan islanders.
The cover of August von Kotzebue's 1795 play based on Benyovszky's Memoirs. This play inspired several similar ones, and a few operas for good measure. It is safe to say that it bears absolutely no relation to historical reality. But it played to full houses. Which is important.
In Kotzebue's play, there is an affecting scene where Benyovszky suddenly remembers his wife back home, much to the consternation of young Afanasia and her father, Commander Nilov.
A rather buff version of Benyovszky, as imagined in the late 20th century.
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Maps.
Mor Jokai's map of Benyovszky's global travels (1891)
Pasfield Oliver's map of Benyovszky's voyages in the Far East (1893)
A Russian map of the Far East and the North Pacific Ocean (1754)
A map of Japan and the Kuril islands by Jean-François de la Perouse (1787)
Thomas Jeffreys' map of Kamchatka (1760)
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's map of Formosa (Taiwan) (1730)
...his map of the Kuril Islands (1750)...
...and of Japan (1752)
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