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Fort Ross is a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North America in what is now Sonoma County, California. It was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America from 1812 to 1841.
- November 5, 1961
The Russians established an outpost called Fortress Ross (Russian: Крѣпость Россъ, or Krepostʹ Ross) in 1812 near Bodega Bay in Northern California,: 181 north of San Francisco Bay. The Fort Ross colony included a sealing station on the Farallon Islands off San Francisco. [20]
Jul 5, 2012 · Word of Fort Ross’ plight soon made it to the Kremlin, and in mid-2009 the Russian government dispatched its ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, to the park for a well-publicized visit.
Jan 31, 1971 · The white, blue and red flag with the black imperial double‐eagle of Czarist Russia first flew over Fort Ross (short for Rossiya, a poetic term for Russia), 70 miles north of San Fran cisco, in...
Oct 6, 2019 · Museums, the performing arts and historical sites like Fort Ross in California, where an old Russian company flag flies, have been the beneficiaries of their gifts.
Only a small number of Russian men and one Russian woman, Elena Rotcheva, are believed to have lived at Ross. The settlement was multicultural for at least thirty years—with native Siberians, Alaskans, Hawaiians, Californians, and individuals of mixed European and Native American ancestry.
The first permanent settlement on Kodiak Island in what is now Alaska was built by Gregor Shelikov in 1784. The organization he put together and led became the Russian-American Company in 1799. That same year, Tsar Paul granted the company a charter that gave it a complete monopoly over all Russian enterprises in North America.
