Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ba tare da samun nasara a London ba, a cikin 1805 ya yi tafiya, ta jirgin ruwa, zuwa Rasha, amma ya lalace a Memel, inda ya tara kuɗi don sauran tafiya ta hanyar zane-zanen jakadan Holland da sauransu. Daga nan sai ya ci gaba da tafiya zuwa St. Petersburg, yana wucewa ta babban ɓangaren sojojin Rasha a kan hanyar zuwa
Ƙasar Ostirlitz. A babban birnin Rasha ya sami abokai, ciki har da Sir Alexander Crichton, likitan gidan sarauta. Bayan ya koyi Rasha, ya yi tafiya a cikin ciki na kasar, kuma ya shafe shekaru da yawa a Ukraine, yana yin balaguro zuwa Turkiyya, Tartary, da sauran wurare, yana nazarin al'adun Cossacks, Circassians, da Tartars, da kuma tattara makamai da makamai. A cikin 1809 hotonsa "Rashawan manoma suna kiyaye hutun su" an nuna shi a Royal Academy.