Leontii Hagemeister

Leontii Hagemeister

Leontii Hagemeister was Chief Manager of the Russian American Company (RAC) in Sitka, Russian Alaska, in 1818. Hagemeister learned about the 1814 massacre of the Nicoleños by RAC hunters. He wrote to Ivan Kuskov, manager of Fort Ross in California, and demanded that the Russian overseer of the Alaska Native hunters be sent to St. Petersburg to answer questions about the massacre.

DATE OF BIRTH: June 16, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH: Livonia, Latvia
DATE OF DEATH: December 24, 1833
PLACE OF BURIAL: Unknown


References
Gibson, James R. and Alexei A. Istomin with the assistance of Valery A. Tishkov. Russian California 1806–1860: A History in Documents, Vol. 1. London: Ashgate (2014): 333–34, 336–38.

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: 261.

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: 185–187.