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Matthews, Owen.
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Rezanov, Nikolaĭ Petrovich, 1764-1807.
Diplomats -- Russia -- Biography.
Statesmen -- Russia -- Biography.
Russians -- North America -- History.
Russia -- Colonies -- North America.
Russia -- Territorial expansion -- History.
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Glorious misadventur...
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Glorious misadventures : Nikolai Rezanov and the dream of a Russian America / Owen Matthews.
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Matthews, Owen.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Subjects
Rezanov, Nikolaĭ Petrovich, 1764-1807.
Diplomats -- Russia -- Biography.
Statesmen -- Russia -- Biography.
Russians -- North America -- History.
Russia -- Colonies -- North America.
Russia -- Territorial expansion -- History.
ISBN:
9781620402399 (hbk.) :
1620402394 (hbk.)
Description:
384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Contents:
Prologue -- Introduction -- Man and nature -- The final frontier -- The court -- The king of Siberia -- A nabob in St Petersburg -- To China -- Empire builder -- Tsar Paul -- Russia's East India Company -- From Newgate to Brazil -- Cape Horn to the court of the Hawaiian king -- Nangasac -- Humiliation -- The voyage of the Maria -- Baranov -- Hunger, disease, shipwreck and death -- Conchita -- Love and ambition -- I will never see you -- I will never forget you -- The weeping country -- Epilogues.
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"The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818, Russia's furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov--diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire, and gambler ... [In this book, the author] conjures a[n] ... original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders"--
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Lihue Public Library
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979.80209 Rezanov Ma
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