Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prehistory of the Russian colonization of the new world
  • The first information about Alaska and its discovery by Russian mariners
  • Opening up of the Aleutian Islands by Russian promyshlenniki, 1743-83
  • Activities of G.I. Shelikhov and the founding of the first permanent Russian settlements in America
  • Russian promyshlenniki in Alaska at the end of the eighteenth century
  • Conclusion.