James R. Gibson offers a detailed study that is both an account of this chapter of Russian history and a full examination of the changing geography of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula
In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collectio
From dust jacket: "This is a documentary history of Russia's nineteenth-century settlement in California. It contains 492 documents, mostly translated from the Russian for the first time, fully annota
