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Canny Catherine would furnish "neither men, ships, nor money" for trade with the Alaska region. But she was willing to let the merchants furnish them. So the Siberian sea trader, Grigor Shelekhov, decided (circa 1780) to plant a Russian, colony in North America...
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...
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