12 Facts About Russian-American Company

Russian-American Company Under the High Patronage of His Imperial Majesty was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company.

Russian-American Company was replaced in 1818 by an officer appointed from the Imperial Russian Navy.

Russian-American Company funded a circumnavigation that lasted from 1803 to 1806, with the goals of expanding Russian navigational knowledge, supplying the RAC stations, and opening commercial relations with the Qing Empire.

Russian-American Company contacted the Imperial government, noting that the deal would likely be more effective at ending the firearm sales than through diplomatic channels with the United States.

Russian-American Company believed that Astor had arranged all the negotiations to secure this trading right.

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Russian-American Company grew interests in other parts of North America, principally Alta California, with smaller focus on Baja California and the Oregon Country.

Russian-American Company had been a crew member of an expedition that during 1823 and 1824 to examine the Russian possessions in North America.

Russian-American Company's memorandum proposed that the Californios be encouraged to secede from Mexico in order to create a political alliance.

Zavalishin wanted the Russian-American Company to receive a grant of land extending north to the border of the Oregon Country, south to the San Francisco Bay and east to either the Sierra Nevada mountains or the Sacramento River.

Russian-American Company was expected to ship between 3,000 and 5,000 Poods of salt annually.

Discussions with the Hudson's Bay Russian-American Company were begun in the spring of 1854, with each company pledged to continue peaceable relations and to press their respective governments to do the same.

Russian-American Company built a whaling station at Mamga in Tugur Bay in the Sea of Okhotsk in 1862.