Alexandr Andreevich Baranov (Александр Андреевич Баранов in Russian), sometimes spelled Aleksander or Alexander and Baranof, was born in Events January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings October 22 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896) October 28 - An earthquake demolishes Lima and Callao, in Peru Catharine de Ricci (born 1522...1746 in Kargopol is a town of 13000 in Russia. ...Kargopol, in the Arkhangelsk Oblast (Арха́нгельская о́бласть) is a Russia. ...Arkhangelsk province of The Russian Federation ( Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. ...Russia.

Alexandr ran away from home at the age of fifteen. He became a successful merchant in A traditional house in Irkutsk The Yenisei watershed, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Irkutsk (Ирку́тск), the chief town of the Irkutsk Oblast, is one of the most important places in Siberia, being not only the principal commercial depot north of Tashkent, but also a...Irkutsk, Siberian federal subjects of Russia Siberia ( Russian: Сиби́рь, common English transliterations: Sibir, Sibir; possibly from the Mongolian for the calm land) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ...Siberia. He was lured to After the discovery of northern Alaska by Ivan Fedorov in 1732, and the Aleutian Islands, southern Alaska, and north_western shores of North America in 1741 during the Russian exploration conducted by Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov, it took fifty years until the founding of the first Russian colony in...Russian America, now State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  _ Land 1,481,347 km²  _ Water 236,507 km² (13. ...Alaska, by the growing fur trade there. He became a successful trader there and established and managed A trading post is a place where trading of goods takes place. ...trading posts in the Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. ...Kodiak Island region.

From 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...1799 to 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...1818, he became chief manager for the influential The Russian_American Company was a semi_official colonial trading company chartered by Czar Paul I in 1799. ...Russian_American Company. He managed all of the company's interests in Alaska, including the Looking down the Aleutians from an airplane. ...Aleutian and The Kuril Islands The Kuril Islands (Russian: Кури́льские острова́), also known as Kurile Islands, stretch northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. ...Kuril Islands. Activity in the region flourished as trading in Binomial name Enhydra lutris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) is a large otter native to the North Pacific, from northern Japan and Kamchatka west across the Aleutian Islands south to California. ...sea otters and Seal or SEAL can refer to: Seal, a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority. ...seals boomed. Baranov convinced native Alaskan hunters to expand their range to include the coasts of State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  _ Land 404,298 km²  _ Water 20,047 km² (4. ...California. Baranov also advocated more educational opportunities for native Alaskans. Under his leadership, schools were created and frontier communities became less isolated.

During Baranov's rule, The Russian Orthodox Church (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ...Russian Orthodox missionaries operated in Russian America. Many of them denounced the cruelty and exploitation of the native people by the Russian fur traders. Baranov had a stormy relationship with the missionaries, who often proselytized and helped the natives secretly.

Near the end of his life, Baranov embarked on a journey to return to Russia. He sailed to Russia by heading south and then sailing around the The Cape of Good Hope headland seen from the north 1888 Map of the Cape of Good Hope Triangular Postage Stamp The Cape of Good Hope is a headland in South Africa, near Cape Town, traditionally — and incorrectly — regarded as marking the turning point between the Atlantic Ocean and the...Cape of Good Hope. Baranov became very ill on the journey and died in the settlement of Batavia is a Latin name used for the Netherlands, derived from the Batavii tribe. ...Batavia, in View of the Puncak area in West Java Java (Indonesian: Jawa) is the most populous of Indonesias islands, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ...Java, in 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...1819.