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Russia was the first European power to explore and settle the far northeast of North America. In 1788, the private Kurile Island Company, founded initially to explore the business opportunities in the Kurile Islands, was given by the Russian Tsar permission to explore the region of what is now modern-day [[Alyeska]]. A few years later, the tsar proclaimed the Ukase of 1790, which detailed the 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 to settle Kolchak island in the south of their claimed land with the Port Alexander colony (1816 - 1832). However, the Russians eventually relinquished much of their claims in North America in the Russo-Dutch Treaty of 1832.
The part that they retained, Alyeska, was a mostly forgotten colony and a backwater for much of the 19th century, with a revolving door of colonization companies trying to find a way to profit from the region. Nevertheless, in the 1870s, after realizing the geopolitical importance of Alyeska to Russian interests, the Tsar founded and 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.
== List of leaders ==
==== List of monarchs ====
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
!Name
! colspan="2" |Reign
!Dynasty
!Notes
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_of_Russia Alexis]
|1645
|1676
|Romanov
|
|-
|[[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]]
|1844
|1867
|
|
|-
|[[Henry-Williams of Russia|Henry-Williams]]
|1867
|1903
|[[House of Orange-Nassau|Orange-Nassau]]
|
|-
|[[Peter III of Russia|Peter III]]
|1903
|1925
|[[House of Orange-Romanov|Orange-Romanov]]
|
|-
! colspan="5" |''<small>Pretenders</small>''
|-
|[[Peter III of Russia|Peter III]]
|1925
|1939
| rowspan="4" |[[House of Orange-Romanov|Orange-Romanov]]
|
|-
|Michael II
|1939
|1952
|
|-
|Alexander IV
|1952
|1953
|
|-
|Henry-Jacob
|1953
|1977
|
|}
==== Chairmen of the National Republic ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
! colspan="2" |Term of office
!Duration
!Notes
|-
|[[Ozero Murmsky|Anastaze 'Ozero' Murmsky]]
|1926
|1943
|17 years
|
|-
|''[[Mikhail Orlov]]''
|1943
|1944
|326 days
|Interim leader
|-
|[[Semyon Kiselev]]
|1944
|1958
|14 years
|
|-
|[[Ilya Kiselev|Ilya Semyonovich Kiselev]]
|1958
|
|
|
|}
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