Grigory Shelikhov
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Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov was a Russian seafarer, merchant, and fur trader who established a permanent settlement in Alaska. He and his forces were responsible for the 1784 Awa'uq Massacre.
Grigory Shelikhov was a founder of the predecessor of the Russian-American Company
The settlement of Grigory Shelekhov in Kodiak Island
Shelikhov's granddaughter Olga Nikolaevna Kokoshkina by Karl Hampeln
Grigory's wife Natalia Alekseevna Shelikhova
Russian Colonization of North America describes colonies and territories claimed by the Russian Empire in the Pacific Coast region of North America from 1732 to 1867. Russian colonial possessions in t
Grigory Shelikhov
…what is now Alaska, for fur trading. In 1783–1786, he led an expedition to the coastal shores of the mainland, where they founded the first permanent Russian settlements in North America. Shelikhov's voyage was done under the auspices of his Shelikhov-Golikov Company, founded in 1783 in partnership with Ivan Larionovich Golikov. This…
The Bering Strait, where Russia's east coast lies closest to Alaska's west coast. Early Russian colonization occurred well south of the strait, in the Aleutian Islands.
Sibero-Russian promyshlenniki (hunter-trapper frontiersmen)
Flag of the Russian-American Company (1806–1881).
Tlingit Chieftain of Sitka