Back أمريكا الروسية Arabic Rus Amerikası Azerbaijani Руска Америка Bulgarian Amèrica russa Catalan Ruská Amerika Czech Вырăс Америки CV Russisk Amerika Danish Russisch-Amerika German Ρωσική Αμερική Greek Russian America English
| Russian America Русская Америка Russkaya Amerika | |||||||||
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| Colony of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1799–1867 | |||||||||
 Russian America in 1860 | |||||||||
| Capital | Kodiak (1799–1804) Novo-Arkhangelsk | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1799–1818 (first) | Alexander Andreyevich Baranov | ||||||||
• 1863–1867 (last) | Dmitry Petrovich Maksutov | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 8 July 1799 | |||||||||
| 18 October 1867 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | United States | ||||||||
| a. ^ The Russian-American Company was chartered by the Emperor Alexander I in 1799, to govern Russian possessions in North America on behalf of the Russian Empire. | |||||||||
Russian America (Russian: Русская Америка, romanized: Russkaya Amerika), was a colonial possession of the Russia in America between 1799 and 1867, in the current State of Alaska, also included some fortifications, such as Fort Ross in California and four other forts (including Russian Fort Elizabeth) located in Hawaii, its capital would be Novo-Arkhangelsk (current Sitka), this colony would be monopolized by the Russian-American Company and the arrival of the Russian Orthodox Church.[1]
This territory prospered due to the fur trade even though it would decline due to logistical difficulties and many settlements would be abandoned in the 1860s, it was finally sold to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 Millions ($120 Millions today)[2]
- ↑ Campbell, Robert (2007). In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-8122-4021-4.
- ↑ Black, Lydia T. (2004). Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.