Russians in California by Allison Smith https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36 Ally Smith and Lila Hill CPH en-us 2018-03-08 01:37:49 UTC 2018-03-16 00:56:02 UTC hello@padlet.com 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637106 Fort Ross was established in 1812 by the Russian-American Company as an outpost for sea otter hunters and a permanent trade base. The company controlled all Russian trade and settlements in North America. ]]> 2018-03-16 00:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637106 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637179 From the 1740s to the end of the century, over forty Russian merchants and companies sponsored voyages to the Aleutians and the Alaskan mainland. By the early 1800s, Russian entrepreneurs were exporting an average of 62,000 fur pelts from North America each year, worth roughly two-thirds of a million paper rubles (about $133,200), a large sum in those days

]]> 2018-03-16 00:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637179 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637278 The women and girls wear long, brightly patterned dresses, with strands of amber beads around their necks and their hair swept up under colorful scarves-- festive attire for a weekend gathering. The men and boys are dressed in simple white tunics, belted at the waist.]]> 2018-03-16 00:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637278 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637366 Fort Ross, located 60 miles north of modern day San Francisco, is the largest lingering trace of the Russian advance to California

]]> 2018-03-16 00:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637366 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637514 In the 1820s, were increasingly coming into conflict with the Mexicans and the growing number of Americans settling in the region. Disappointed with the commercial potential of the Fort Ross settlement and realizing they had no realistic chance of making a political claim for the region, the Russians decided to sell out. After making unsuccessful attempts to interest both the British and Mexicans in the fort, the Russians finally found a buyer in John Sutter. An American emigrant to California, Sutter bought Fort Ross in 1841 with an unsecured note for $30,000 that he never paid. 

]]> 2018-03-16 00:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637514 Records show that after 1812 there were from twenty-five to one hundred Russians and from fifty to one hundred twenty-five Native Alaskans at the settlement at any given time. 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637744 2018-03-16 00:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242637744 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242638842 2018-03-16 00:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242638842 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242639232 2018-03-16 00:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242639232 18asmith4 https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242640586 2018-03-16 00:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/18asmith4/mvxgq2v3sk36/wish/242640586