Eduard Guillaume Andreevich Stoeckl was a Russian diplomat best known today for having negotiated the American purchase of Alaska on behalf of the Russian government.
Photograph of Baron de Stoeckl, by Mathew Brady, between 1855 and 1865
The signing of the Alaska Treaty of Cessation on March 30, 1867. L-R: Robert S. Chew, William H. Seward, William Hunter, Mr. Bodisco, Eduard de Stoeckl, Charles Sumner and Frederick W. Seward.
Photograph of his daughter-in-law, Agnes Barron, 1902
The Alaska Purchase saw the Russian Empire transfer Alaska to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867. On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
The US$7.2 million check used to pay for Alaska (equivalent to $129 million in 2023)
Portrait of William H. Seward, 24th Secretary of State for the United States under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
The signing of the Alaska Treaty of Cessation on March 30, 1867. Left to right: Robert S. Chew, William H. Seward, William Hunter, Mr. Bodisco, Eduard de Stoeckl, Charles Sumner, and Frederick W. Seward.
Image: Czar's Ratification of the Alaska Purchase Treaty NARA 299810
