Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, a Russian nobleman and statesman, promoted the project of Russian colonization of Alaska and California to three successive Emperors of All Russia—Catherine the Great, Paul,
Rezanov's portrait from the State Historical Museum
A replica of Russian Block House #1 (one of three watchtowers that guarded the stockade walls at Novo-Arkhangelsk) as constructed by the National Park Service in 1962.
María de la Concepción Marcela Argüello y Moraga (1791–1857)
The Ryazanov Monument in Krasnoyarsk
The Russian-American Company Under the High Patronage of His Imperial Majesty was a Russian state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company. Emperor Paul I
Nikolai Rezanov
…preserved in the library of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member. Rezanov's greatest legacy proved the founding of the Russian-American Company in 1799. Rezanov was born in Saint Petersburg on 28 March 1764. He mastered five languages by the age of 14. He joined the Izmaylovsky Regiment at the…
The flag of the Russian-American Company.
Flag of the Russian-American Company 1835