Baranov

American  

[buh-rah-nuhf] / bʌˈrɑ nəf /

noun

1. Aleksandr Andreyevich 1747–1819, Russian fur trader in Alaska.

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Example Sentences

Illustrations depict a trading company headquarters in Sitka, circa 1827; an expedition led by the first Russian governor, Alexander Baranov, arriving at Sitka in 1804; and members of the Tlingit nation performing a war dance in 1802, before they wiped out most of the Russian-American Company's original settlement at Sitka.

From Washington Post

Both locales had decided, amid renewed calls for racial justice, to remove controversial monuments: a 10-foot tall statue of Theodore Roosevelt astride a horse outside Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, and a bronze of Alexander Baranov, a Russian colonialist, perched on a rock and lost in thought, greeting visitors to a Sitka civic center.

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Baranov, a colonialist and early 19th-century governor of Russian Alaska, founded Sitka in 1804 — on land long inhabited by Alaska Natives, many of whom he killed or enslaved.

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Lavery says that Baranov is an important figure in Russian history, while Roosevelt, she points out, earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War, which secured favorable terms for Russia.

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The Baranov statue, in Sitka, Alaska, was erected in 1989 to commemorate the town’s history as a Russian settlement.

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