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Grigory I. Shelikhov
Russian merchant
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history of Russian-American Company
- In Russian-American Company
…Company, headed by the merchants Grigory I. Shelikov and Ivan I. Golikov, was organized in 1781 to establish colonies on the North American coast and carry on the fur trade. After Shelikov’s death (1795), the group merged with three others to form the United American Company. To confront foreign activity…
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