Russian-American Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

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00:02:01 1 Early history
00:07:02 1.1 American merchants
00:10:15 2 Outside Russian America
00:10:49 2.1 Lower Pacific Northwest
00:10:59 2.1.1 Juno
00:11:50 2.1.2 Saint Nikolai expedition
00:13:09 2.2 Californias
00:17:05 2.2.1 Fort Ross
00:18:00 2.2.2 Proposed colonization
00:21:52 3 Later period
00:25:52 4 Russian-American Company flag
00:27:43 5 Chief managers
00:28:40 6 Settlements
00:28:49 6.1 In Alaska
00:30:10 6.2 Outside Alaska
00:30:39 7 Ships
00:31:32 8 See also



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The "Russian-American Company Under the Supreme Patronage of His Imperial Majesty" (Russian: Под высочайшим Его Императорского Величества покровительством Российская-Американская Компания Pod vysochayshim Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva porkrovitelstvom Rossiyskaya-Amerikanskaya Kompaniya) was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company. The company was chartered by Tsar Paul I in the Ukase of 1799. Its mission was to establish new settlements in Russian America, conduct trade with natives, and carry out an expanded colonization program.
This was Russia's first joint-stock company, and it came under the direct authority of the Ministry of Commerce of Imperial Russia. The Minister of Commerce (later, Minister of Foreign Affairs) Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev was a pivotal influence upon the early Company's affairs. In 1801, the company's headquarters were moved from Irkutsk to Saint Petersburg, and the merchants who were initially the major stockholders were soon replaced by Russia's nobility and aristocracy.
Count Rumyantsev funded Russia's first naval circumnavigation under the joint command of Adam Johann von Krusenstern and Nikolai Rezanov in 1803–1806. Later he funded and directed the voyage of the Ryurik's circumnavigation of 1814–1816, which provided substantial scientific information on Alaska's and California's flora and fauna, and important ethnographic information on Alaskan and Californian (among others) natives. During the Russian-California period (1812–1842) when they operated Fort Ross, the Russians named present-day Bodega Bay, California as "Rumyantsev Bay" (Залив Румянцев) in his honor.