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After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $156,960,000 in 2023), all the holdings of the Russian–American Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.
Pages in category "Russian colonization of North America" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Russia. See also the list of leaders of Russia.
This category includes articles on the history of Russian Americans. Russian Americans are citizens of the United States who were born in Russia or the historic Russian Empire , or who are of Russian descent .
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Tsardom of Russia: 1547–1721: Russian Empire: 1721–1917 Russian America: 1799–1867 Grand Duchy of Finland: 1809–1917 Congress Poland: 1867–1915 Russian Manchuria: 1900–1905 Uryankhay Krai: 1914–1921
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
1907 1st All-American Sobor held in Mayfield, PA, at which the name of the Russian mission was declared to be The Russian Orthodox Greek-Catholic Church in North America under the Hierarchy of the Russian Church; Abp. Tikhon (Belavin) returns to Russia and is succeeded in his see by Platon (Rozhdestvensky) as Archbishop of the Aleutians and ...