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In 1787 Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov founded a trading post on the island of Sitka, where he implements Russian serfs and Aleut; from 1799 to 1804, he was the resident administrator and governor of Russian America and decided to build his capital. The fort was destroyed by the Tlingit in 1802. Baranov takes places two years later the island was renamed its current name and the city took the name of New Archangel (now "Sitka"). In 1807, the Governor is the castle Baranov. In 1811, it establishes the position of Fort Ross, California. In total, we can count about forty strong Russian America in the first half of the nineteenth century. Russia says that Russian America extends to the Strait of Queen Charlotte (now Canada) and that foreigners have no right of way. California is the Spanish and Oregon and British Columbia (including even the current state of Washington) is English, access to the Pacific and its fur seems impossible in the United States. Faced with this deadlock, the President of the United States James Monroe wrote his famous doctrine that seeks to eliminate the influences of the European continent. The United States, the United Kingdom and Russia finally agree, and a treaty was signed in 1824, through which the Russian border was moved south to the north , while the English renounce Oregon and southern British Columbia. By this treaty, the establishment of new forts out of Russian Alaska is prohibited and in 1825, the UK gets a right of way along the narrow coastal strip Alaskans. Finally, the purchase of Alaska by the U.S. in 1867 put an end to Russian presence in America. 1.- Corporate Housing Houston Suitenet.org - Corporate Housing & Extended Stay Directory