9. Answer the following questions:
•What
was the importance of the
Russian-American
Company
for Russia?
• What rights had the RAC?
• Who of the governors of the RAC managed to organize the thriving maritime trade there?
• What goods were the basic subjects of export?
•
What were the
difficulties of the trading relations with Russia through Siberia?
• Who were the stockholders of the RAC?
• Was the entity in charge established in Irkutsk or Yakutsk?
• Who was the first president of RAC? What do you know about him?
•When was the Russian-American Company sold? Who purchased it?
10. Look at the flag of the RAC. Describe it.
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1.
Explain the actions of the USA and the US to stop the expansion of
Russian colonies in America.
12. Find on map №16 the first permanent settlement in Russian America.
13. Speak about Fort Ross.
14. Prove that the activity of RAC was very successful in 1799-1800.
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5.
Read, explain and find on the map of the USA the location of 43°
N latitude,
51°
N latitude, 54°40'
and
55° N latitude:
Latitude gives the location of a place on the Earth (or other planetary body) north or south of the equator. The lines of latitude are the imaginary horizontal lines called parallels, shown running east-to-west (or west to east) on maps.
Longitude
is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and
global navigation for east-west measurement. Longitude is represented
by lines running from north to south called meridians. The line of
longitude that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in
England, establishes the meaning of the zero degree of longitude, or
the prime meridian*.
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* Prime meridian - исходный меридиан
16. Give a summary of the text.
17. A) Scan the table of persons who were the Governors of the Russian American Company. B) Find on map №16 places named by them. Governors of the Russian American Company
Below is a list of the governors/general managers of the Russian-American Company. All of them were navy officers. Many of their names occur as place names in Southeast Alaska.
|
№ |
Name |
Term |
|
1 |
Alexander Andreyevich Baranov
(1747 — 1819) |
July 9, 1799 — January 11, 1818 |
|
2 |
Captain Leonty Andrianovich Gagemeister (1780 — 1833) |
January 11, 1818 — October 24, 1818 |
|
3 |
Lieutenant Semyon Ivanovich Yanovsky (1788 - 1876) |
October 24, 1818 — September 15, 1820 |
|
4 |
Matvey Ivanovich Muravyev (1784 — 1826) |
September 15, 1820 — October 14, 1825 |
|
5 |
Pyotr Igorovich Chistyakov (1790 — 1862) |
October 14, 1825 — June 1, 1830 |
|
6 |
Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (1797 — 1870) |
June 1, 1830 — October 29, 1835 |
|
7 |
Ivan Antonovich Kupreianov (1800 — 1857) |
October 29, 1835 — May 25, 1840 |
|
8 |
Adolf Karlovich Etolin (1798 — 1876) |
May 25, 1840 — July 9, 1845 |
|
9 |
Vice Admiral Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkov (1802 — 1872) |
July 9, 1845 — October 14, 1850 |
|
10 |
Captain Nikolay Yakovlevich Rozenberg (1807 - 1857) |
October 14, 1850 — March 31, 1853 |
|
11 |
Aleksandr Ilich Rudakov (1817 - 1875) |
March 31, 1853 — April 22, 1854 |
|
12 |
Captain Stepan Vasiliyevich Voyevodsky (1805 - 1884) |
April 22, 1854 — June 22, 1859 |
|
13 |
Captain Ivan Vasiliyevich Furugelm (1821 — 1909) |
June 22, 1859 — December 2, 1863 |
|
14 |
Prince Dmitri Petrovich Maksutov (1832 — 1889) |
December 2, 1863 — October 18, 1867 |
18. Translate into Russian and discuss an extract from the notes made by N. Rezanov about the life of the Russian settlers and the character of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, the first governer of the Russian- American Company:
“The houses where we are staying are overcrowded. But the owner of these places lives even worse. He lives in a board hut, damp to such extent that mould appeared in every corner. When it rains hard, the hut is leaking like a sieve from all sides.
A wonderful person! He cares only about quiet arrangement of others, but he is so careless to himself, that once I found his bed swimming and asked him, whether a wind had torn off a plank from the side of his hut. “No, — he answered quietly, — it seems to have leaked to me from outside, — and he went on with his orders.”