Alexander Baranov

Alexander Andreyevich Baranov

Chief manager of the Russian American Company in Russian Alaska (1790–1818), Alexander Baranov arranged Russian-led hunting activities on the North American coast. Baranov was in charge when Alaska Native sea otter hunters were on San Nicolas Island in 1814 and a massacre occurred. He wrote to Fort Ross manager Ivan Kuskov criticizing Iakov Babin, overseer of the hunters who killed the Nicoleños.

DATE OF BIRTH: 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH: Kargopol, Russia
DATE OF DEATH: April 16, 1819
PLACE OF BURIAL: Sunda Strait (burial at sea)


References
Gibson, James R. and Alexei A. Istomin, with the assistance of Valery A. Tishkov. Russian California 1806–1860: A History in Documents. London: Ashgate 1 (2014): 338.

Istomin, Alexei A., James R. Gibson, and Valery A. Tishkov. Russia in California: Russian Documents on Fort Ross and Russian-Californian Relations in 1803–1850. Moscow: Nauka, 2005: 269–70.

Khlebnikov, Kiril T. Baranov. Kingston, Ontario: The Limestone Press, 1973: 99.

Morris, Susan L., Glenn J. Farris, Steven J. Schwartz, Irina V. L. Wender, and Boris Dralyuk. “Murder, Massacre, and Mayhem on the California Coast, 1814–1815: Newly Translated Russian Documents Reveal Company Concern Over Violent Clashes.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 34, 1 (2014): 81–100.

Pierce, Richard A. Russian-America: A Biographical Dictionary. Kingston, Ontario: The Limestone Press, 1990: 20–23.