Russian-American Company
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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
The flag of the Russian-American Company.
Flag of the Russian-American Company 1835
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Russian River (California)
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The Russian River is a southward-flowing river that drains 1,485 mi2 of Sonoma and Mendocino counties in Northern California. With an annual average discharge of approximately 1,600,000 acre feet, it
Russian-American Company
…outpost of the company. Several additional posts were operated by the company, including Port Rumyantsev on Bodega Bay, and several ranches south of the Russian River valley. Though on disputed Spanish and then subsequently Mexican territory, the legitimacy of these claims was contested by both the Company and the…
The estuary of the Russian River, north of Bodega Bay
An Autumnal Sunset on the Russian River Evening Glow by William Keith, 1878
The Russian River downstream of Duncans Mills
White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), almost 8 feet (2.4 m) long, caught in 1998 in the Russian River's "Hacienda Hole" in Guerneville, California