Review:
An interesting story of Russian attempts to colonize Alaska and the entire western coast of North America by Nikolai Rezanov - a Russian nobleman, who also attempted to set up the commercial links with Japan.
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Notes:
Nikolai Rezanov was one of the founders of the Russian-American Company – a state sponsored chartered company to establish new settlements in Russian America. The tsar Aleksander I commissioned Rezanov as Russian ambassador to Japan to conclude a commercial treaty. In order to get there, he was appointed co-commander of the First Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806), led by Adam Johann von Krusenstern. Rezanov departed the expedition when it reached Kamchatka after visiting Japan where he was unsuccessful in his ambassadorial mission.
In 1806, the colonists at Sitka were dying of scurvy and starvation. In desperation, Rezanov put together a small crew and left Sitka sailing south on the Juno on a life-or-death expedition to California to buy food and supplies from the Spanish. They arrived at San Francisco Bay and Rezanov was successful in buying provisions. Rezanov became engaged to commandant Arguello’s daughter. He then proceeded to Petropavlovsk, where he dispatched his ships, without the consent of the Tsar, to attack the Japanese island Sakhalin of the lower Kuril group. Following, he began the overland trip to Saint Petersburg, hoping to obtain the Tsar's approval for the treaty with Spain, but died on the way.
In 1806, the colonists at Sitka were dying of scurvy and starvation. In desperation, Rezanov put together a small crew and left Sitka sailing south on the Juno on a life-or-death expedition to California to buy food and supplies from the Spanish. They arrived at San Francisco Bay and Rezanov was successful in buying provisions. Rezanov became engaged to commandant Arguello’s daughter. He then proceeded to Petropavlovsk, where he dispatched his ships, without the consent of the Tsar, to attack the Japanese island Sakhalin of the lower Kuril group. Following, he began the overland trip to Saint Petersburg, hoping to obtain the Tsar's approval for the treaty with Spain, but died on the way.
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