Pionery Russkoy Ameriki

V 2021 godu ispolnyaetsya 280 let s toy pory, kogda russkaya ekspediciya pod rukovodstvom Vitusa Beringa i Alekseya Chirikova polozhila nachalo osvoeniyu Alyaski, kotoraya do 1867 goda nosila nazvanie Russkoy Ameriki. V etoy knige predstavleno shest' biograficheskih ocherkov o teh, kto ostavil znachitel'nyy sled v istorii etogo regiona: "Rosskogo Kolumba" Grigoriya Shelihova, pervogo pravitelya russkih koloniy Aleksandra Baranova, osnovatelya poseleniya Ross v Kalifornii Ivana Kuskova, avtora proekta prisoedineniya Kalifornii k Rossii Dmitriya Zavalishina, "apostola Alyaski i Sibiri" svyatitelya Innokentiya (Veniaminova), issledovatelya i puteshestvennika Lavrentiya Zagoskina. Raznye prichiny i obstoyatel'stva priveli ih na kray sveta, no vseh ih mozhno smelo nazyvat' podvizhnikami i sozidatelyami Russkoy Ameriki. Seriya: Zhizn' zamechatel'nyh lyudey.