Alexandre Baranov
Alexandre Andreevich Baranov (in Russian АлександрАндреевичБаранов), sometimes spelled Aleksander or Alexander and Baranof, born in 1746 in Kargopol (Russian province of Arkhangelsk), died with Batavia (the Indies Dutchwomen) in 1819, was commercial Russian, director of the Russian Compagnie of America and first governor of the Russian America.
Baranov left its native area at the 15 years age. He became a prosperous merchant with Irkoutsk, in Siberia. He was attracted towards Russian Alaska by the trade of the furs which developed to with it. He became there still prosperous merchant, establishing stations of draft in the area of the island Kodiak.
Of 1799 with 1818, thanks to entregent of Nikolai Rezanov, it became one of the leaders of influential the Russian Compagnie of America. It managed all the interests of the company in Alaska, including the islands Kouriles and the Aleutian Islands. The activity of the area was flourishing with the explosion of the trade of the sea otters and the Phoque S. Baranov convainquit of the indigenous hunters to extend their zone of hunting to the coasts of California. Under its direction of the schools were open for the Amerindians of Alaska and the various communities of the area became isolated. Orthodoxe missionaries operated in Russian America, but often maintaining the stormy relations with Baranov, by denouncing in particular the behavior of the Russians towards the local populations.
On the return voyage towards Russia, Baranov embarked on a ship for Europe by the Cape of Good Hope. It fell sick during the voyage and died in the colony Dutchwoman of Batavia on the island of Java in 1819.
During the Second world war, the United States baptized one of the Liberty ship S S Alexander Baranof .
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