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=== Imperial Russia ===
==== Russian
Russia was the first European power to explore and settle the far northeast of North America. In 1788, the private Kurile Island Company, originally founded to explore the business opportunities in the Kurile Islands, was given by the Russian Czar a permission to explore the region of what is now modern-day Alaska. A few years later, the czar proclaimed the Ukase of 1790, which detailed the initial claims of Russia on the American continent. The Kurile Island Company was given a charter to the Aleutian Islands and eventually other parts of Alaska.
Russians tried, unsuccessfully, the settle Kolchak island in the south of their claimed land with the Port Alexander colony (1816 - 1832). Eventually the Russians relinquished much of their claimed land in North America in the the Russo-Dutch Treaty of 1832. The rest of their claimed Alyeskan land was a mostly forgotten about colony and a backwaters for much of the 19th century with a revolving door of colonization companies trying to find a way to make profit from the region. Then in the 1870s, after realizing the geopolitical importance of Alyeska to Russian interests, the Tsar granted a monopolistic charter to the Russian Pacific Company to oversee the colonization and management of the territory. Since the company was state-funded, the Russian Pacific Company was able to pour more development into Alyeska than its private company predecessors. In the 1890s, gold was discovered in the Alyeskan territory. This resulted in an influx of immigrants from Russia and East Asia to Alyeska.
==== Russo-Ottoman War (1850) ====
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