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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
1453 Through the Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) The Time of Troubles to the First Romanovs (1598-1682) Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682-1762) The Age of Catherine the Great (1762-1801) The Reign of Emperor Alexander I (1801-1825)
Russian Merchant to the Americas

Engagement Symbol
Russian Merchant to the Americas
Grigorii Ivanovich Shelekhov (1748–1795)
Rossiiskago kuptsa Grigor’ia Shelekhova stranstvovanie v 1783 godu iz Okhotska po Vostochnomu Okeanu k Amerikanskim beregam [An Account of the Journeys of the Russian Merchant Grigorii Shelekhov in 1783 from Okhotsk on the Eastern Pacific Ocean to the Shores of America]
St. Petersburg: V.S., 1791–92
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division



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