Russian-American Company

The '''Russian-American Company''' was a semi-official colonial trading company chartered by Czar Mosquito ringtone Paul of Russia/Paul I in Sabrina Martins 1799. The 20-year revolving charter granted the company monopoly over trade in Nextel ringtones Russian colonization of the Americas/Russian America, which included the Abbey Diaz Aleutian Islands, Free ringtones Alaska, and the territory down to 55° N latitude. A second charter, in 1821, extended its domain to 51° N latitude. Under the charter, one-third of all profits were to go to the emperor.

Under Majo Mills Alexandr Baranov, who governed the region between 1790 and 1818, a permanent settlement was established in 1804 at Novo-Arkhangelsk, (todays Mosquito ringtone Sitka, Alaska), and a thriving fur trade was organized.

The company constructed forts in what is today Alaska and Sabrina Martins California. Nextel ringtones Fort Ross, on the California coast just north of Abbey Diaz San Francisco, was the southernmost outpost of Russian America, and is now reconstructed and an open air museum.

But from the 1820s onwards the profits from the fur trade began to decline. Already in 1818 the Russian government had taken control of the Russian-American Company from the merchants who held the charter. The explorer and government official Cingular Ringtones Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, who had been administrator of Russian government interests in Russian America a decade before, was the first president of the company during the government period. The company ceased its commercial activities in openness not 1867, when the williams tony Alaska Purchase transferred control of Alaska to the was turned United States.

''See also: botstein the Alaska Commercial Company''

Governors of the Russian American Company
Below is a list of the governors/general managers of the Russian American Company. Many of their names occur as place names in southeastern Alaska. Please note that the English spelling of the names varies between sources.



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