Russkie lyudi v istorii Alyaski

Izvestno, chto proshli uzhe desyatki let s tekh por, kak Rossiyskaya imperiya prodala Soedinyennym Shtatam svoi kolonii na Alyaske - Russkuyu Ameriku. Otdalyennost' etogo sobytiya sovsem ne snizhaet ego aktual'nosti. No razve mozhno s tochnost'yu govorit', chto my predstavlyaem sebe istinnuyu tsenu Alyaski dlya Rossii. Khotelos' by, chtoby nyneshnee pokolenie, ponimalo, na chto prishlos' reshit'sya Rossiyskoy imperii, chtoby uderzhat' svoi granitsy i obespechit' polnuyu zashchitu strany. Istoriya Russkoy Ameriki - eto blestyashchiy primer v cherede velikikh geograficheskikh otkrytiy, sdelannykh rossiyskimi issledovatelyami. Protsess kolonizatsii Alyaski rossiyanami byl i ostaetsya unikal'nym vvidu ego isklyuchitel'no mirnogo kharaktera, chego ne skazhesh' ob istorii kolonizatsii drugimi derzhavami Afriki, Yuzhnoy Ameriki, Yugo-Vostochnoy Azii. Russkaya Amerika - eto bez preuvelicheniya predmet zasluzhennoy gordosti dlya otechestvennykh issledovateley, moreplavateley, predprinimateley. I v tselom eto yarkaya stranitsa v istorii Rossii i SShA, primer pozitivnogo razvitiya vzaimootnosheniy russkikh poselentsev s mestnymi zhitelyami