Tag: russian america

• Local Notes No. 5 – Fort Ross, the Frontier Outpost of Russian America

  

  For thirty years, boatfuls of unlucky Russian serfs were ported thousands of miles away from their homes to grow crops on the California coast. How did they stay Russian in what would become NorCal?

  raanderson1995

  August 31, 2021

  Essays, Local Notes

  colonization, fort ross, Local Notes, russian america, sonoma coast