Timofei Tarakanov

Timofei Tarakanov was a Russian American Company fur trader who was overseer of many of the company’s hunting groups in North America. He was in charge of the sea otter hunting crew that sailed on the Russian ship Il’mena in 1814. Tarakanov stayed with a hunting group on San Clemente Island while Iakov Babin took a smaller group to hunt on San Nicolas Island, where the massacre occurred.

DATE OF BIRTH: 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH: Kursk, Russia
DATE OF DEATH: After 1834
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.

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: 268, 318–19.

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): 82, 85–87, 98n3.

Pierce, Richard A. Russian-America: A Biographical Dictionary. Kingston, Ontario: The Limestone Press, 1990: 497–500.

Zorin, Alexander Vasil’evich. Timofei Tarakanov: Revealing the Documents of the State Archive of Kursk Region. Electronic document, http://www.academia.edu/6852570/About_Timofei_Tarakanov_Revealing_the_Documents_of_the_State_Archive_of_Kursk_Region: accessed January 11, 2015.

Last updated: November 17, 2018