Rylsk, Russia
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Rylsk is a town and the administrative center of Rylsky District in Kursk Oblast, western Russia, located on the right bank of the Seym River 124 kilometres west of Kursk, the administrative center of
View of Rylsk
St. Nicholas Monastery in c. 1912
Uspensky Cathedral
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.
Rylsk, Russia
…town were commissioned by the Shelikhov merchants who traded with Alaska Natives in North America in the late 18th century, the most famous of whom, Grigory Shelikhov, was born in the town. A monument was erected to his memory on the central square. The foremost of the town's churches are the Uspensky Cathedral (1811…
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