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Russian Creole settlements were concentrated in Alaska, including the capital, New Archangel (Novo-Arkhangelsk), which is now Sitka. Russian expansion eastward began in 1552, and in 1639 Russian explorers reached the Pacific Ocean. In 1725, Emperor Peter the Great ordered navigator Vitus Bering to explore the North Pacific for potential ...
New Russia (Russian: Новороссийск; also called Novarassi, Slavarassi, Slavorossiya (Russian: Славороссия), Yakutat Colony, and Yakutat Settlement) was a trading-post for furs and a penal colony [3] established by Russians in 1796 in present-day Yakutat Borough, Alaska.
Shelikhov and his group killed hundreds of indigenous Koniag, then founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska – on the island's Three Saints Bay. By 1788 Shelikhov and others had established a number of Russian settlements over a large region, including the mainland areas around Cook Inlet.
The settlement's cemetery was located to its southeast. Excavation at the site yielded evidence that it was built on the site of an older native settlement, dating to c. 100 BCE. [8] The Russian settlement site was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978. [2]
In Russian Alaska, the term Creole was not a racial category, rather the designation of "colonial citizen" in the Russian Empire.Creoles constituted a privileged class in Alaska that could serve in the Russian military, had free education paid for by the colonial government, and had the opportunity of social mobility in both colonial Alaska and in the Russian Empire.
The town was settled by a group of Old Believers from Oregon around 1968, and remains a largely ethnic Russian town to this day. [3] The travels of the group from Russia, as well as the story of the founding of Nikolaevsk, is told in a 1972 article in National Geographic, [4] a 2013 episode on the NatGeo channel called Russian Alaska, and a 2013 article in The Atlantic magazine.
The settlement became known as New Russia, Yakutat Colony, or Slavorossiya. [14] After the Russians cut off access to the fisheries nearby, a Tlingit war party attacked and destroyed the fort in 1805. By 1886, after the 1867 Alaska Purchase by the United States from the Russian Empire, the area's
Russian settlements sprang up across Alaska, first in Unalaska in 1772 and then further north and east as the fur trading industry took hold. Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 ...