Russian America: Glory and Pain of Russian History. Kremlin S.

The story itself created the plot of this book: this story was moved by the plans of the founders of Russian America to bring the Indians and Aleuts to the arm of the Russian monarch, the secrets of the London and St. Petersburg courtyards, connected not so much with America as with Central Asia, the “Russian” loans of European bankers , The “Japanese” adventures of Admiral Golovnin and the drama of Emperor Alexander I.

Russian conveyors and feeders who went to Aleuta, Captain Sarychev and Captain Gagemester, Catherine the Great and her son Pavel I, merchants Shelikhov, Kuskov and Revolutionary Francisco De Miranda, Chamberlain Rezanov and the legend of Russian America, ruler of rams, are only part of those figures and fate, which is mentioned in the book.

But this book is not only about people. She about the great movement of the Russians to the Pacific Ocean and its logical result - Russian America was betrayed by the highest nobility of the Russian Empire. Instead of the “internal” Bering Strait and the Sea with both Russian shores, instead of Russian California and quite possible Russian Hawaiian islands, Russia only lost its eastern prospects...