Pacific Northwest Collection

Resources (2)

• Papers relating to the Russians in Alaska

  Petrograd, 1732–96, 21 vols. Photostat copies of documents selected from the Russian Archives by Frank Alfred Golder, in Russian. Contents: vols. 1–2. Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681–1741), Danish explorer in Russian employ, "Discovery of the Aleutian Islands"; vol. 3. Bering, Papers; vols. 4–6. Alexei Ilich Chirikov (d. 1748), Journal, 1733–42, Log of the St. Paul, and report to the Admiralty College on the voyage of the St. Paul, ca. 1741 and later; vol. 7. Miscellany; vol. 8. Nikolai Golovin, "Propositions of Count Nikolai Golovin to send ships to Kamchatka"; vol. 9. Imperial Archives materials; vol. 10. Sofron Khitrov, Log of the St. Peter, 1 September 1740–27 January 1743 (nautical journal of Tchitrev); vol. 11. G. F. Muller, report on the discovery of new islands near America by Captain Shmaleev; vol. 12. Papers on the missions in Alaska to 1799; vol. 13–15. Grigorii Shelikov (Shelikhov) (1747–1795), founder of first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska (1784, on Kodiak Island), Papers concerning Church affairs, the activities of Shelikov and A. A. Baranov in Alaska, and the early history of Russian Alaska, 1783–96; vol. 16. "Opinion of Vice Admiral Sanders" (1732–43); vol. 17–19. G. W. Steller (1709–1746), German naturalist on second Bering expedition, Journal, "Organization of first Kamchatka expedition, and Reise"; vol. 20. Sven Waxel (1701–1762), Danish captain in Russian navy and member of second Bering expedition, report, 15 November 1742, to the Admiralty College on the voyage of the St. Peter; and vol. 21. Kharlam Yushin, Log of the St. Peter, 1741, English translation in F. Golder's Bering's Voyages, 2 vols., 1922.

• Serge N. Smirnoff

  Chamberlain to the governor of Pavlovsk and secretary to Duke John of Russia. Diary concerning the Russian Revolution, murder of the Romanov family, and his escape from a Bolshevik prison to Stockholm in 1919. The journal proper ("Narrative"), 31 pp., is preceded by a biographical sketch, 23 pp., and followed by a "Letter to his wife, March 17, 1919," 196 pp., and "Freedom," 13 pp.