Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Hand-written collection of poems recorded or written by Golovanov; several poems are in German or translations from German into Russian; George Kostrometinoff used the volume for recording popular poems of Russian poets.

Partial contents: -- Poem “A look at the creoles.”

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Includes census of parishioners, 1913-1917, with ethnic composition, births and deaths for 1932 in Perevil (Perryville) kept by Priest Kochergin, plat maps of the Russian Greek Mission Reserve at Juneau, 1904, 1906, 1907, and documents by Vedonoff[?].

Partial contents: -- Bogosluzhebnyi zhurnal za 1932 g, ot Avgusta 15-go v selenie Perevil Aliaska by Grigorii Kochergin.

Scope and Contents Stafeev’s journal and letters provide many facts concerning the ethnography, economy, and social history of the period in Alaska from 1880-1895. During this time Stafeev served in trading posts at Nuchek, Tyonek, Douglas, and Kodiak. Entries while he was at Tyonek (1884/1888) mention Dena’ina shamanism, hunting routines, the conduct of the fur trade, traditions, customs, and beliefs. There is information of the murder of traders Holt, at Knik, and McIntyre, at Kodiak. The journal is...

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Includes statements regarding Andrew Kendukol'so[?] and Vassilii Nal'khov[?] written by Vladimir Douckow, Priest of St. Michael's in Sitka.

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Includes correspondence, instructions on missionary conduct, consecration and ordination papers of Innokentii, reports, memos, copybook, and Aleut translations; correspondents include: Tikhov [?], Bishop of the Aleutians and North America, Filip Kopylov, and Archimandrite Nikodim [?], Abbot of the Ascension Monastery, Irkutsk.