September 01, 2021 First Contact It is astonishing to think that as recently as the eighteenth century – not the Middle Ages, not the days of Marco Polo, but in the supposedly enlightened eighteenth century – people still had only the vaguest idea of where Asia ended and America began.
August 29, 2021 The Forgotten Journey of the Frigate Pallada An often-overlooked high-seas tale of swashbuckling adventure, empire, and exchange between Russia and Japan.
August 22, 2021 Four Russian Treasures in North America Remnants of the Imperial Russian past are all over Alaska – and California, too.
December 18, 2020 Russian America There are countless interesting, Russian-related places across North America. We have used the Google Map Engine to show where some of them are.
July 23, 2021 Anchors Far Away Some new historical treasures have been pulled from the sea near Kamchatka.