Sergei Ionovich Kostromitinov (1854-1915), or "Colonel George Kostrometinoff": From a Creole Teenager to the Number-One Russian-American Citizen of Sitka
Sergei Kostromitinov was born in 1854 to a Russian employee of the Russian-American Company and a Creole woman. Fluent in Russian and English and conversant in several native languages, he became an interpreter for Alaska's American authorities and an indispensable cultural broker among the reg...
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Duke University Press
2013
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Online Access: | http://ethnohistory.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/60/3/385 https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2140704 |