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Word: aleksandre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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Self-Made Russian. Shelekhov planted his settlement on Kodiak Island-in the lee of the peninsula that breaks into the bits and pieces of the Aleutians. To manage his new colony Shelekhov chose middle-aged Merchant Aleksandr Andrevich Baranov. Baranov was that rarest of Russians, a self-made man. He began as a small trader, worked his way to ownership of a Siberian glass factory. Baranov is the hero of Author Chevigny's impressive history of young Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seward's Icebox | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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