Authors:Dawn Lea Black, Alexander Petrov,
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Keywords: alaska, rasmuson, library, historic, translation, press, commerce, shelikhova, russian, oligarch, natalia, university
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2010-05-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1602230730
ISBN-13: 9781602230736

This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American Company, Shelikov worked in Alaska, and her business acumen and wide-ranging connections—including the empress of Russia and a swathe of northern leaders—were crucial to the growth of Alaska’s economy, as well as to the welfare of the Native people, in whose life and culture she took a strong interest. The letters, petitions, and personal d