Andrei Valterovich Grinëv - Russian Colonization of Alaska: Baranovs Era, 1799-1818

With the publication of Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei V. Grinv... demonstrates once again why he is considered one of the worlds foremost experts on the Russian period of Alaskas history.

Katherine L. Arndt, Russian Review

Located at the intersection of colonial Russian and precolonial North American (particularly Native North American) history, the subject matter of this book is very important. This is a major contribution to the field. There has not been anything published in Russian or English (or any other language) that could compare with it in scope and theoretical sophistication.

Sergei Kan, author of Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries

With Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 17411799, Andrei Grinv widens his already impressive body of scholarship on the history of Russian America.

Ian Halter, H-Russia

Andrei Valterovich Grinv

Translated by Richard L. Bland

University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln

Russkie kolonii na Alyaske za dvadtsatiletie sushchestvovaniya Rossiisko-Amerikanskoi kompanii (from Alyaska pod krylom dvuglavogo orla) 2016 by Andrei Valterovich Grinv

English translation 2020 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska

Cover designed by University of Nebraska Press; cover image is from the interior.

Author photo courtesy of the author.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Grinv, A. V. (Andre Valterovich), author. | Bland, Richard L., translator.

Title: Russian colonization of Alaska: Baranovs era, 17991818 / Andrei Valterovich Grinv; translated by Richard L. Bland.

Other titles: Aliaska pod krylom dvuglavogo orla. Selections. English | Baranovs era, 17991818

Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. | Series: Russian colonization of Alaska; [vol. 2] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020001843

ISBN 9781496222169 (hardback)

ISBN 9781496222749 (epub)

ISBN 9781496222756 (mobi)

ISBN 9781496222763 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH : AlaskaHistoryTo 1867. | Rossisko-amerikanskaia kompaniiaHistory. | AlaskaDiscovery and explorationRussian. | AlaskaColonization. | RussiaColoniesAlaska. | AlaskaPolitics and governmentTo 1867. | RussiansAlaska. | Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 17451819.

Classification: LCC F 907 . G 74913 2020 | DDC 979.8/01dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020001843

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To my dear beloved mother, Nelly Mikhailovna Grinva

First I should like to express my deepest gratitude to my old American friend and excellent translator Dr. Richard L. Bland from the University of Oregon. Thanks to his hard work most of my articles and two previous monographs ( The Tlingit Indians in the Period of Russian America, 17411867and Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 17411799) can be read in English. I would also like to thank Nan Coppock-Bland for continued assistance with editorial advice on the translations.