Russian-American company

history

The first Russians to discover the Alaska Peninsula (America) from Siberia were the sailors of Semyon Dezhnev's expedition in 1648. There is an assumption that some of the sailors, after the shipwreck of one of the kochs, could have landed on the American shore and founded the first settlement of Kyngovey, which turned out to be unviable. Johann de Rodes wrote from Moscow to the Swedish Queen Christina in 1652 about the preparation of an expedition to America by the Yakut voivode Franzbekov (Fahrensbach), for which they were supposedly going to send 200 riflemen under the command of foreign officers. Apparently, the expedition did not take place: Franzbekov lost his position that same year due to abuses. In 1687 or 1689, the Smolensk governor Musin-Pushkin, who had previously served in the Siberian order, reported to the Jesuit Avril about the origin of the American natives from the peoples of Siberia[10]. The Chronograph by the Siberian encyclopedist Semyon Remezov (d. after 1720) contained information about America with an indication of the source

population

Russians, Americans, British, Indians.

task

extraction of furs, metals, ore, wood, and delivery to St. Petersburg.

enemies

Aleuts, Chugach, Tlingit.

capital

Novo-Arkhangelsk

leader

Alexander Andreevich Baranov