Yudin collection of Russian-American Company records, 1783-1946

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		Description of Vodianoi ostrov [Water Island], circa 1800 (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world) (continued)
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			Vodianoi ostrov was supposedly discovered in 1771 off the coast of Kamchatka, by Count Mauritius Augustus Benyovsky (1746-1786) a Hungarian-born Polish adventurer and memoirist. Exiled to Siberia by Catherine II, Benyovsky led a mutiny in Kamchatka and made his way to Madagascar via the Kuril Islands, Japan, and Macao.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Description of an island near Svyatyi Mys, 1807, Nov. 11
BOX 2 REEL 1		Description of an island near Svyatyi Mys [Holy Cape], Nov. 11, 1807 (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world)
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			This is an extract of a description of Sviatoi Mys [Holy Cape] and islands in the vicinity as well as an account of hunting expeditions in the region.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Contraband activities in Siberia and North America, circa 1812
BOX 2 REEL 1		Memorandum about contraband activities in Siberia and North America, [1812] (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world)
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			This is a rather harsh assessment of the activities of the sea captain and trader William Pigot who became involved in the fur trade in the Pacific between 1812 and 1820. As a British-born American, Pigot had trouble selling his furs in the closed ports of Russia and China.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Reports of the Kamchatka commissioner, 1822
BOX 2 REEL 1		Excerpts from the reports of the Kamchatsk commissioner Nikolaev, 1822 (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world)
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			In his reports, Nikolaev, the local commissioner for the Russian-American Company, airs his grievances against the governor of Kamchatka, Petr Ivanovich Rikord, who was in favor of cultivating trade with foreign countries, including Japan.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Complaints of Unalaska natives, 1789-1790
BOX 2 REEL 1		Complaints of the natives of Unalaska District, 1790 (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world)
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			Despite the intentions of Grigorii Shelikhov to create favorable relations between the Russian promyshlenniki and the native population of the Aleutian Islands, many of his fellow colonists became known for their brutality and coercive methods. In the "Complaints of the Natives of the Unalaska District" compiled between 1789 and 1790 for Russian government inspectors, we find a vivid depiction of the forced labor, severe punishments, starvation, seizure of women, and plunder to which the Aleut people were subjected.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report of Kamchatka, 1794-1795
BOX 2 REEL 1		Memorandum by Voevodskii on conditions in Kamchatka; list of goods with prices, from 1795 (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world)
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			Voevodskii was the town bailiff of Nizhe-Kamchatka. In 1794-1795 he prepared this report on agricultural conditions in Kamchatka, where Russian peasants had been settled since about 1740. He notes that further encouragement of the local cultivation of grain and the salt industry would result in substantial savings for the government.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Ukase of the ruling senate, 1788, and reply of the Russian-American Co.
BOX 2 REEL 1		Order of the Ruling Senate, #48, issued to Shelikhov and Golikov, 1788, Sept. 11, and their response, 1788, Sept. 11, AHD v. 3, 243-44. (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world)
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			The first of these documents reflects Catherine II's determination to prevent a monopoly of the fur trade from being formed by Shelikhov and Golikov, as well as her refusal to grant a loan of 200,000 rubles and a company of 100 soldiers to their company. At the same time, Catherine shows her admiration for the merchants by her gifts of swords and medals bearing her image, and warns them not to enter into conflicts with the Chinese or other foreign powers. In the second document, Shelikhov and Golikov inform the Senate that they are in compliance with the orders of the government not to collect taxes from natives of the Aleutian islands.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Remarks on criminals, circa 1809
BOX 2 REEL 1		Remarks on criminals: Naplavkov, Popov and their accomplices, [1809] (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world)
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			In 1809 a group of discontented colonists, led by an exiled convict, Vasilii Naplakov, and the son of a convict, Ivan Popov, formed a secret society in Novoarkhangel'sk with the intention of assassinating the governor, Alexander Baranov, seizing a ship, and taking all the women of the colony to the South Sea Islands to a create a republic of their own. Upon learning of the plot, Baranov proceeded to investigate the affair and sent five of the most guilty to Kamchatka for prosecution.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report on an expedition of Colonel Kozlov-Ugrenin, 1788-1789
BOX 2 REEL 1		Report on an expedition of Col. Kozlov-Ugrenin, 1789 (Copies of correspondence to Nikolai Rezanov before his departure for trip around the world)
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			This unsigned report of an agent of the Russian-American Company in Kamchatka describes the oppression of the native population by the military leader of an expedition there, Col Kozlov-Ugrenin in 1788-1789. The accuracy of this account has been questioned, as Kozlov-Ugrenin was known for his interest in the welfare of the Aleut people.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Reports from St. Catherine’s Island, 1803-1804
BOX 2 REEL 1		Draft of report of Fedor Shemelin to Board of Directors of the Russian-American Company concerning behavior of naval officers toward Rezanov on his voyage of 1803, AHD v. 3, 247-8 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			In his account of the voyage of the Nadezhda from St. Petersburg to Kamchatka in 1803, Shemelin, an employee of the Russian-American Company describes the persecution he and Rezanov suffered at the hands of the naval officers on board, especially Count Fedor Ivanovich Tolstoi. In addition, he accuses them of disloyalty to the government, atheism, and debauchery.
BOX 2 REEL 1		Copy of report of Shemelin to the Board of Directors of the Russian-American Company from the Island of Santa Catharina, 1803, Dec. 26, AHD v. 3, 248 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			After crossing the South Atlantic, the Neva (the ship accompanying the Nadezhda) was found to be in need of repairs before it could continue into the Pacific. On this occasion Shemelin reported on the wasteful habits of the crew while in the port of Santa Catharina and the amounts spent on sugar, vodka, and brandy.
BOX 2 REEL 1		Copy of order from Shemelin to Nikolai Korobitsyn, 1803, Dec. 15, AHD v. 3, 249 with copy of Korobitsyn's reply to Shemelin, 1803, Dec. 16, AHD v. 3, 249 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			In this order Shemelin requested that Korobitsyn, who was sailing on the Neva, forward his expense reports to the Company. In his reply, Korobitsyn rejects Shemelin's right to give him orders.
BOX 2 REEL 1		Report of Shmelin to the Board of Directors of the Russian-American Company from the Island of Santa Catharina, 1804, Jan. 8, AHD v. 3, 249 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			Shemelin reports that the new masts are ready for the Neva and that the ship will soon be sailing. He also reports that in order to save the stock of French brandy for trading purposes, he is going to supply the crew with local rum.
BOX 2 REEL 1		Register of bills for expenses in Copenhagen, Falmouth, and Santa Cruz, Sept. 1803 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			This list includes bills for food and drink for the crew, and repairs for nautical instruments.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report on conversation between Shelikhov and an English traveler, undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		Report of a conversation between Grigorii Shelikhov and an English traveler, John Ledyard, probably incomplete, circa 1778, AHD v. 3, 250 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			Having joined Captain James Cook's third and final expedition around the world in 1776, John Ledyard (1751-1789) was eager to determine the possibilities of establishing a fur trade between the Northwest coast of America, China, and New England. Convinced of the importance of Russia in such trade, Ledyard took an interest in the activities of the traders whom he met at Unalaska in October 1778. Later he attempted to cross Russian and Siberia en route to the Pacific, but was arrested on unsubstantiated charges in Iakutsk and deported from Russia at the Polish border. In these notes, probably made after meeting Ledyard in Irkutsk in 1788, Grigorii Shelikhov admits that he sought to convince Ledyard of the extent of the Russian settlement of America, claiming, for example, that all the native people from Alaska to California had become Russian subjects.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Russian-American Co. to Moritz Berkh, 1812, July 8
BOX 2 REEL 1		Copy of letter from the Russian-American Company To Lt. Moritz Berkh. Krondshtadt. Ship "Neva", July 8, 1812 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			This letter informs Lieutenant Berkh that his ship is seaworthy for a trip around the world and that he is to select his crew as soon as possible for a departure in August.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report to Rezanov from Peter Filipov, 1806, Feb. 13
BOX 2 REEL 1		Report to Nikolai Rezanov from Petr Filipov, Port Novo-Arkhangel'sk, Feb. 13, 1806 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			Petr Filipov reports to Rezanov that during his stay on Sitka he has collected and stuffed about sixty sea and land birds.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Contract for service, Lieutenant Fedor von Romberg, 1802, Oct. 26
BOX 2 REEL 1		Contract for service in North America between Lt. Fedor von Romberg and the Russian-American Company, 1802, Oct. 26, AHD, v. 3, 252 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			Von Romberg was an assistant to Captain Kruzenshtern. In this letter to the board of directors of the Russian-American Company he sets forth conditions he would like added to his contract with the company.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report of the Russian-American Co., undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		Memorandum of the Russian-American Company, circa 1806, AHD v. 3, 252 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			This memorandum provides a description of what constitutes a share in the Russian-American Company.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Inventory of the Russian-American Co., circa 1815
BOX 2 REEL 1		Inventory of the Russian-American Company, circa 1815 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			This simple undated inventory lists the main territories, buildings, population, and capital under the control of the Russian-American Company about 1815. In the list are mentioned two churches, and the settlements at Kodiak Island, Novoarkhangel'sk, and Fort Ross (in California). There is also mention of an island to be purchased from the king of Hawaii.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Cover to “Package for the Moscow Secret Service,” 1806, Apr. 20
BOX 2 REEL 1		Letter from Petr Golovachev to Fedor Shemelin, Apr., 1806, AHD, v. 3, 256 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			On April 25, 1806 Petr Golovachev committed suicide while serving aboard the Nadezhda. Prior to his death, Golovachev composed this letter and entrusted Shemelin with a package of personal papers to be handed to Rezanov and his relatives in Russia.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report from Baranov, 1803, Feb. 15
BOX 2 REEL 1		Copy of Instructions from Alexander Baranov, Manager of the Kodiak Company, to Hunters, 1803, Feb. 15, AHD, v. 3, 254-55 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			In these instructions Baranov appeals to the Russian fur hunters in Alaska not to abandon their service to the company following the disastrous Kolosh uprising and the loss of men and furs at sea during the previous year. To those men who were willing to remain in service, Baranov held out the possibility of new conditions in their contracts that would permit them to becoming shareholders in the company.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Imperial ukase concerning articles forbidden for importation, 1793
BOX 2 REEL 1		Imperial decree concerning articles forbidden for importation [printed], Apr. 8, 1793 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			Following the French Revolution, Catherine II decided to forbid the importation of all sorts of manufactured and agricultural goods from France until such time as the monarchy and social order were restored. Among the forbidden items were shoes, wines, beads, buttons, clocks, silk clothes, paper products, snuff-boxes, etc.
BOX 2 REEL 1	“St. Petersburg Current Prices, No. 76,” 1811
BOX 2 REEL 1		St. Petersburg current prices (or preis-kurant), Feb. 29, 1811 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			The "St. Petersburg Current Prices" published by the department of trade of the ministry of finance listed the prices of Russian raw goods, quotations on foreign goods, and the exchange rate for rubles.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report to tsar from Kozima, 1805
BOX 2 REEL 1		Letter from Kozma Ermolinskii to Rezanov, 1805, July 25, AHD v. 3, 257 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			In his letter, written at Nizhe-Kamchatka, Lieutenant Ermolinskii complains bitterly of the persecution he suffered at the hands of Major General Koshelev.
BOX 2 REEL 1	General Okhlesteshev, 1815
BOX 2 REEL 1		Note concerning General Okhlestiakov, 1815, May 26, AHD, v. 3, 257 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			This brief notes the promotion of Mikhail Okhlestiakov to the rank of colonel in the Preobrazhenskii regiment.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Travel journal of Peter Korsakovsky, 1818
BOX 2 REEL 1		Travel journal of Petr Korsakovskii, Sept. 10, 1818 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			In 1818 Petr Grigor'evich Korsakovskii (1799-1831) was given permission to explore the interior of Alaska in search of gold and the descendants of a crew of Russian men who had reportedly been stranded in Alaska in the seventeenth century. In this extract of his journal, Korsakovskii describes the hunting and weather conditions during September 1818 as well as the places and names of chiefs he encountered.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Cargo list for the Beznocimov, 1804
BOX 2 REEL 1		Cargo list by Beznosikov from an expedition to western provinces in China, 1804 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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BOX 2 REEL 1	Report of the Orlovsk government, undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		Report of the Governor of Orlov chamber concerning land given to Osip Kozodavlev, undated (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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BOX 2 REEL 1	Note in English signed by John Main, undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		Note in English by John Main on the proper form of address for the Reverend William Coxe of Cambridge, undated (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			John Main served as assistant to Dr. Carl Heinrich Merck during the overland expedition of Joseph Billings to Siberia in 1786. William Coxe (1747-1828) was an English traveler, historian, and clergyman. In 1778 and in 1785-86 Coxe traveled in Russia where he took an interest in the Russian exploration of the Pacific and America. In 1780 he published his Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America and in 1787, A Comparative View of the Russian Discoveries with those made by Captain Cook and Clerke. Shelikhov's note in Russian at the bottom reads, "Make a copy and send it to Demidov. December 13."
BOX 2 REEL 1	Russian translations of Vancouver’s travels, undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		Excerpts of Russian translation of Vancouver's travels, undated (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			George Vancouver (1757-1798) accompanied James Cook on his second and third voyages, and commanded an expedition of his own to the North Pacific between 1790 and 1794. This extract from volume three of his journal, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World in the Years 1790-1795, records Vancouver's impressions of Russian rule in America.
REEL 2 REEL 1	Map of St. Petersburg area, undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		Map of St.Petersburg area of Russia drawn by N.B., undated (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			This map covers the northwestern part of European Russian.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report of Captain Vailev, 1821
BOX 2 REEL 1		Report of Captain Vasil'ev concerning ship movements, June 24, 1821 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			Captain Ivan Iakovlevich Vasil'ev (1797-1838?) was a navigator and explorer in the service of the Russian-American Company. This memorandum records his meeting with V. S. Kramchenko who reported his discovery of a low, wooded island.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Siberian expenses, 1823, Nov. 8
BOX 2 REEL 1		Projected changes for reducing expenses in Siberia, Nov. 8, 1823 (Reports by Fedor I. Shemelin from St. Catherine's Island)
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			By 1823 the income made by the Russian-American Company was insufficient to support its various offices in Russia, Siberia, and America. Inspired, perhaps, by the recommendations of Rezanov, (see A copy of secret instructions by Nikolai Rezanov for Alexander Baranov), the author of this paper called for the reduction of company business and personnel in Irkutsk, Kiakhta, Okhotsk, and Iakutsk.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Petition from Yakut merchant, 1797, Nov.
BOX 2 REEL 1		Petition from a Yakut merchant Fedor Struchkov to the governor of Irkutsk Company, Nov. 2, 1797
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			Writing in a single sentence, the author of this petition, Fedor Struchkov, proposed to organize a fur trading company that would hunt and explore around the Shantar Islands and the mouth of the Amur River.
BOX 2 REEL 1		List of products, undated
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BOX 2 REEL 1	Tribes of the Irkutsk region, undated
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BOX 2 REEL 1	Death and burial of Admiral von Kruz, 1799
BOX 2 REEL 1		Report of the death and burial of Admiral Aleksandr Ivanovich von Kruz, [1799]
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			Kruz lived from 1731 to 1799.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Report concerning Thomas Vernon and Co., 1803
BOX 2 REEL 1		Request of Thomas Vernon and Co. concerning the Portugese ship Pensamento Felix, 1803, July 2, AHD, v. 3, 266
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			This is a Russian copy of the request by the company of Thomas Vernon to the Russian minister of commerce to sequester in the port of Kronstadt the Portugese ship Pensamento Felix for nonpayment of bills to the company.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Notes concerning Guznishevskii, 1808
BOX 2 REEL 1		Note concerning prikazchik Guznishchevskii, Kamchatka, 1808, Sept. 16, AHD, v. 3, 266
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			Guznishchevskii was involved in a case of misuse of company funds at the Kamchatka office of the Russian-American Company.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Shares of the Russian-American Co., undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		Memorandum concerning shares of the Russian-American Company
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			This memorandum petitions the board of directors of the company to guarantee that shares in the company be universally accepted in government contracts as security deposits.
BOX 2 REEL 1	List of merchants to take part in the Tsar’s Commerce College, undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		List of merchants appointed by the Emperor to take part in conferences at the ministry of commerce, undated
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BOX 2 REEL 1	Report from Okhotsk station concerning Japanese troubles, 1811
BOX 2 REEL 1		Report from the Okhotsk station concerning trouble with the Japanese, Nov. 8, 1811
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			In August 1811 Lieutenant Captain Vasilii Mikhailovich Golovnin (1776-1831) was captured by the Japanese while he and his crew were making a survey of the central and southern Kuril Islands. In retaliation for the raids made by Khvostov and Davydov on Sakhalin (see Report from Stephan Ionovich Zhakarov), Golovnin was kept on Hokkaido (called here Matmai) until 1813. This memorandum recommends that in view of the difficulties with Japan, the next expedition to Sakhalin be diverted to Alaska in the following spring.
BOX 2 REEL 1	Surgeon of the 27th Artillery Brigade at Rovno (Poland?), in German, undated
BOX 2 REEL 1		Letter from surgeon of the 27th artillery brigade at Rovno [Rowno, Poland ?] in German, May 28, 1817
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BOX 2 REEL 1	Contract with N. V. Borisov, 1804, May 7
BOX 2 REEL 1		Contract with Nikita V. Borisov, 1804, May 7, AHD, v. 3, 269
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			This contract contains five clauses defining the typical duties of an employee of the Russian-American Company, including unconditional service wherever he might be sent. The salary was set at 500 rubles per year.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Achievements of the Russian-American Co., undated
BOX 3 REEL 1		Report of the achivements of the Russian-American Company with draft, undated
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			Although this document is undated and unsigned it has been attributed to Mikhail Buldakov (1766-1827?), the first director of the Russian-American Company, who vigorously defends the achievements of the company over a thirty-year period. He mentions not only the company's financial integrity but also its role in expanding the territory and influence of the Russian empire and the conversion of native peoples to Christianity.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Journal of hunting party, Shantar Islands, 1786, June 5-July 30
BOX 3 REEL 1		Journal of Lebedev-Lastochkin's hunting party to the Shantar Islands, June-July 1786, AHD, v. 3, 270
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			Pavel Sergeevich Lebedev-Lastochkin (d. 1800) was a onetime partner and then rival of Grigorii Shelikhov. Although he would later turn his attention to the Aleutian Islands and the coast of Alaska, until the 1780s Lebedev-Lastochkin attempted several trading and hunting expeditions to the Kuril and Shantar Islands.
BOX 3 REEL 1		Note concerning suit of the Russian-American Company against the Lastochkin Company, after 1814, AHD, v. 3, 270
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			Following the death of Shelikhov in 1795, the rivalry between the various fur trading companies in Russian America escalated into violent confrontations among different factions, including the native Americans who had been severely exploited by all parties. Although the creation of the Russian-American Company in 1799 consolidated most of the companies, Lebedev-Lastochkin refused to join. Claims between the two companies continued even after Lastochkin's death in 1800.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Irkutsk region, 1798
BOX 3 REEL 1		Memorandum about Irkutsk region. With draft about food and prices, 1798
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			This memorandum, with corrections attributed to Nikolai Rezanov, discusses the questions relating to the cultivation of agriculture in the region around Irkutsk. As a remedy to the problem of rising prices of foodstuffs, the author proposes the elimination of taxes, promotion of free trade, permission for farmers to travel freely to market towns, etc.
BOX 3 REEL 1	List of charts from Pilot Izmailov, circa 1795
BOX 3 REEL 1		List of charts delivered from Pilot Izmailov from America, 1795, AHD, v. 3, 273; followed by an order from Natal'ia Shelikhova for maps of the Russian American colonies, after 1795, AHD, v. 3, 274-5
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			Gerasim Izmailov (1745-1795) was a talented seafarer and explorer who participated in numerous expeditions to Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands. In October 1778 he encountered Captain Cook off the coast of Unalaska and provide him with valuable nautical and geographical information about the North Pacific. In the 1780s Izmailov's reputation was compromised by his extreme use of force during the Russian occupation of Kodiak Island.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Letter from Ivan Bukharin regarding Okhotsk Port, 1806, Oct.
BOX 3 REEL 1		Letter from Ivan Bukharin to [Nikolai Rezanov] regarding Okhotsk Port, Oct. 1, 1806
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			In reply to questions of Rezanov, here referred to only as Your Excellency, the commander of the port of Okhotsk, Ivan Bukharin, wrote a brief history of the settlement and the origins of the first expeditions to the Kuril and Aleutian Islands, followed by an account of present-day operations at the port and various statistics concerning the Russian personnel stationed there.
BOX 3 REEL 1		Note regarding Ivan Bukharin's deeds, [1805]
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			The memorandum attached to the above letter accuses Bukharin of all sorts of improprieties, such as bribery, the whipping of a noblemen and a local chief, and the transport of luxury goods for his own use at government expense.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Unidentified notes, abstract of Russian-French peace agreements, 1807, July 9
BOX 3 REEL 1		Undated and unidentified notes concerning operations of the Russian-American Company, followed by an abstract of the peace treaty between France and Prussia made in July, 1807, AHD, v. 3, 280
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BOX 3 REEL 1	Animals brought from Lima, Peru, undated
BOX 3 REEL 1		Animals brought from Lima, Peru. With draft, from 1815
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			Mentioned are llamas, vicuñas, and tortoises.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Trading rules received in Peking, China, by Shchegorin, undated
BOX 3 REEL 1		List of trading regulations received in Peking by Fedor Shchegorin, 1794, AHD, v. 3, 281
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			Ivan Shchegorin was a citizen of Irkutsk who resided in Peking between 1781 and 1794 with the Russian religious mission. These regulations, which Shchegorin received from his colleague in Kiakhta on the Russo-Chinese border, were designed to guide Chinese merchants in their dealings with Russia.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Voyage to California, 1789
BOX 3 REEL 1		Report about a voyage to California. Madrid, Mar. 9, 1789
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			In this letter the Russian ambassador in Madrid, Zinov'ev, reports that a Spanish packet-boat named St. Charles encountered a Russian settlement of 462 people under the 48°-49° parallel.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Gifts to the Imperial University at Dorpat, Estonia, 1808
BOX 3 REEL 1		Letter in German from the rector of Dorpat University expressing thanks for gifts to the university library and museum, 1808, Sept. 18, AHD, v. 3, 282 (Letters concerning gifts to the Imperial University at Dorpat)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		Letter in German from the rector of Dorpat University expressing thanks for gifts to the university library and museum,1811, Oct. 25, AHD, v. 3, 282 (Letters concerning gifts to the Imperial University at Dorpat)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		Russian translation of Report about a voyage to California, Sept. 18, 1808 (Letters concerning gifts to the Imperial University at Dorpat)
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BOX 3 REEL 1	Tables concerning taxes, gold, silver, money, etc., undated
BOX 3 REEL 1		Tables concerning taxes, gold, silver, money, etc., Oct. 3, 1797 (Letters concerning gifts to the Imperial University at Dorpat)
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			These tables provide a summary of the history of Russian gold and silver coinage for most of the eighteenth century, as well as rates of exchange for Russian and foreign coinage.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Detention of a Portuguese ship, 1803
BOX 3 REEL 1		Letter concerning the detention of the Portugese ship Pensamento Felix, 1803, June 24, AHD v. 3, 287. (In French with Russian translation.) (AHD v. 3 p. 287)
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			The authors of this letter, the merchants Roversi and Gonτales, protest the detention in St. Petersburg of the ship Pensamento Felix on which their goods are stored. This letter was most likely addressed to Rezanov (see item #107).
BOX 3 REEL 1		Extracts from sea regulations, undated (AHD v. 3 p. 287)
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BOX 3 REEL 1	Declaration of the Russian American Co., 1812, 1819
BOX 3 REEL 1		List of orders, Nov. 29, 1812 (Declarations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		Copy of letter of first director Mikhailo Matveevich Buldakov from Ustiug and "An opinion", Dec. 12, 1819 (Declarations of the Russian-American Company)
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			In his letter Buldakov describes his physical condition following a debilitating stroke and requests the board of directors of the Russian-American Company to hold an election for a new director. In the attached opinion, written between 1801 and 1812, Buldakov argues against the proposal of certain shareholders that the headquarters of the board of directors be moved from St. Petersburg to Irkutsk.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Privileges of the Russian-American Co., undated
BOX 3 REEL 1		An opinion concerning the necessity of expanding the privileges of the Russian-American Company, (Declarations of the Russian-American Company)
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			This opinion, which is unfinished and unsigned, recommends that in order to improve the reputation of the Russian-American Company, it should be allowed to incorporate imperial emblems in its documents and insignia and that its officers be given government ranks with proper titles and uniforms. The opinion also recommends that food rations for company employees be established along government lines and that the company be provided with an armed ship in Russian America.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Miscellaneous letters, 1800, undated
BOX 3 REEL 1		Letter from Rezanov to Boris Latstsano, 1800, Oct. 25, AHD, v. 3, 292 (Miscellaneous letters)
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			Boris Latstsano was governor general of Irkutsk.
BOX 3 REEL 1		Letter from Boris Latstsano, governor of Irkutsk, to the board of directors of the Russian-American Company, 1800, Aug. 27, AHD, v. 3, 292 (Miscellaneous letters)
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			This letter addresses the complaints of a citizen of Suzdal, Petr Kutyshkin, against Golikov and Shelikhov.
BOX 3 REEL 1		Petition of Petr Kutyshkin to Alexander I, 1800, June 29, AHD, v. 3, 292-94 (Miscellaneous letters)
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			In his petition Kutyshkin claims that even though he was a founding member of the Golikov-Shelikhov company he has been deprived of his rightful shares in its profits.
BOX 3 REEL 1		List of subscribers to Kutyshkin's company, 1779, AHD, v. 3, 294-95 (Miscellaneous letters)
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			This list of names shows the terms under which Kutyshkin and other merchants formed a fur company with Ivan Golikov.
BOX 3 REEL 1		Letter from procurator-general of the Senate to the governor-general of Irkutsk, Boris Latstsano, 1800, July 9, AHD, v. 3, 295 (Miscellaneous letters)
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			This letter concerns the approval of the request by a merchant of Irkutsk to establish a textile factory for the manufacture of sailcloth.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Documents concerning the ship Suvorov, undated
BOX 3 REEL 1		Documents concerning the Russian-American Company ship "Suvorov", (Miscellaneous letters)
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			These papers include bills of lading for goods delivered at Kronstadt and newspaper accounts of the ship's progress.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Cargo list and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Co., undated
BOX 3 REEL 1		Register of goods for sale at Irkutsk, 1807, May 11 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		Register of Russian goods traded for Chinese goods at Kiakhta in 1808, Moscow, 1809, May 27, AHD, v. 3, 298 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		List of good delivered to St. Petersburg on the ships Nadezhda and Neva in 1806, AHD, v. 3, 297 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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			The list includes the furs obtained by the Russian-American Company (sea otter, silver fox, blue fox, bear) and goods purchased at Canton (tea, china, buttons, pearls, fans, fabrics, baskets, trays).
BOX 3 REEL 1		Cargo list, Sept. 1, 1804 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		Chinese goods imported through Kiakhta in 1802, 1803, Jan. 19, AHD, v. 3, 297 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		Cargo list, Sept. 1, 1806 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		Chinese goods, Sept. 1, 1806 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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BOX 3 REEL 1		Note regarding trade in Kiakhta, signed by Aleksandr Borisov, Irkutsk, 1807, Jan. 15, AHD, v. 3, 298 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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			Probably written for Rezanov, this note emphasizes the importance of Kiakhta for the Russian-American Company of as a place where the company could profitably exchange furs for Chinese goods.
BOX 3 REEL 1		Note regarding trading activities of the Russian-American Company by Aleksandr Borisov, Irkutsk, 1807, Jan. 15, AHD, v. 3, 298 (Cargo lists and documents concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company and China)
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			In this note Borisov warns that trade in Kamchatka brings the Russian-American Company a deficit of 20% each year.
BOX 3 REEL 1	Notes concerning company operations, 1822, 1830
BOX 3 REEL 1		Diary of an expedition of Mikhailo Matveevich Buldakov's son [parts missing?], 1822, Aug.
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			Written at various periods between 1814 and 1830, this diary of one of the sons of Mikhail Buldakov describes army life in 1812, his travels through the Russo-Polish border region in 1815, and his experiences as a tax collector in Vologda province in 1822.
BOX 3 REEL 1		Diary of an expedition of Mikhailo Matveevich Buldakov's son [parts missing?], June 20, 1830
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			This portion of the Buldakov diary includes details of family life and the tedium of employment in Ustiug.
BOX 3 REEL 2	Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-America Co., 1805-1806
BOX 3 REEL 2		Register of goods exported from islands, from 1803 to 1805 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		Extract of Russian-American Company register of goods exported from America, 1803 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		History of operations of the Russian-American Company, after 1803 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		Note about permission to convey company goods to Gizhiga on government ships, 1805, Mar. 24 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		Observation concerning the board's opinion, after 1798 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		Note of Resignation, after 1800 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		Document concerning the Emperor's dealings with the Russian-American Company, after 1812 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		About the debts of the merchants Krupenin, 1806, Nov. 26 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		Note to Kodiak office from the board of the Russian-American Company, 1803 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2		Report about general meeting of Russian-American Company, [Feb. 28, 1803] (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2	Cargo registers, 1795-1810
BOX 3 REEL 2		Cargo list from Arkhangelsk port. Food from foreign ports, 1810 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2	Notes about Siberia and America, undated
BOX 3 REEL 2		Note in English by Lydia Black describing contents of Box 3, folder 21 (notes about Siberia and America, 1806), AHD, v. 3, 305-10 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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BOX 3 REEL 2	Rezanov’s activities in California, the founding of a colony there, Pacific trade, etc., circa 1814
BOX 3 REEL 2		Report of the council of the Russian-American Company to Emperor Alexander I, 1814, AHD, v. 3, 311-13 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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			The council of the Russian-American Company was established by imperial decree in December 1813 to consider politically sensitive matters. Sometime after, it drafted this report relating to the creation of the Russian colony near Bodega Bay in Northern California (Fort Ross). In particular, the report refers to the possibilities of cultivating grain and livestock, as well as to trade with Spanish California, should the government in Madrid agree to it.
BOX 3 REEL 2	Request to the tsar from Savinskii, 1811
BOX 3 REEL 2		Petition from a Kamchatka official, Petr Savinskii, to Alexander I, 1811, May 15, AHD, v. 3, 314 (Various papers concerning the operations of the Russian-American Company)
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			In his petition, Petr Savinskii lodges a complaint against Major General Koshelev, who unjustly arrested and imprisoned him, and requests as compensation reinstatement and promotion.
BOX 3 REEL 2	Petition from Kosmevin to the tsar, 1812
BOX 3 REEL 2		Petition from a geodesist of the Imperial Academy of Science, Ivan Kozhevin, to Alexander I, 1812, AHD, v. 3, 314-5
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			Ivan Kozhevin was the great-grandson of the priest Ioann Kozhevin who accompanied the Russian mission to China in 1721 and later settled in Siberia. As a highly trained cartographer and translator of the Tungus and Yakut languages, Ivan Kozhevin participated in expeditions to the regions of Okhotsk, Iakutsk, and Irkutsk. In this petition he requests that he be paid a salary still owed to him and that his great-grandfather's lands be returned to his family.
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			Among his many services, Kozhevin lists various charts and maps that he made for Rezanov and Count Rumiantsev.