Russkaia Amerika: slava i bol' russkoi istorii - Kremlev Sergei

The story itself created the plot of this book: this story was driven by the plans of the founders of Russian America to bring the Indians and Aleuts under the arm of the Russian monarch, the secrets of the London and St. Petersburg courts, associated not so much with America, but with Central Asia, " Russian " loans of European bankers, "Japanese" adventures of Admiral Golovnin and drama of Emperor Alexander I. Russian interrogators and breadwinners who went to Aleutians, Captain Sarychev and Captain Gagameister, Catherine the Great and her son Paul I, merchants Shelikhov, Kuskov and the revolutionary Francisco de Miranda, the Chamberlain Rezanov and the legend of Russian America - the ruler of Baranov - are only a part of those figures and destinies, which are mentioned in the book. But this book isn't just about people. It is about the great movement of the Russians to the Pacific Ocean and its logical result - Russian America was betrayed by the highest knowledge of the Russian Empire. Instead of the "inner" Bering Strait and the sea with both Russian shores, instead of Russian California and quite possible Russian Hawaiian islands, Russia only lost its eastern prospects...