Sergei Ionovich Kostromitinov (1854-1915), or "Colonel George Kostrometinoff": From a Creole Teenager to the Number-One Russian-American Citizen of Sitka

• Published in: Ethnohistory
• Main Author: Kan, Sergei
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Duke University Press 2013
• Subjects: Creating Creoles and Being Creole in Siberia; Russian America; and Alaska; Warden; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://ethnohistory.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/60/3/385; https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2140704

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...