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Alexander Baranov
Alexander Baranov was a Russian merchant who managed the Russian fur-trading posts in Alaska from 1790 and became the first chief manager of the Russian-American Company in 1799. He founded New Archangel, present-day Sitka, which became the capital of Russian America after it was retaken from the Tlingit in 1804, and governed the colony until 1818.
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