New Documents on the History of Russian America in Foreign Archives

Abstract

An attempt is made to sum up the results of interdisciplinary studies; to generalize the main data found in archives of the United States, Estonia, France, Spain, Italy, and other countries; and to outline the prospects for studying the history and legacy of Russian America. This article does not lay claim to comprehensive and detailed analysis of sources on the specified topic; this goal is posed in the monograph on which the author is working. The objective of this article is to familiarize the scientific community with characteristic lacunae and to show previously unknown archives that contain documents on both Russian America and various topics of world history.