Grigory Shelikhov

[1] In April 1784, Shelikhov arrived in what he named as Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island with two ships, the Three Hierarchs, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom and the St.

In what became known as the Awa'uq Massacre, Shelikhov and his armed forces, who had guns and cannons, killed hundreds of the Alutiiq, including women and children.

In 1790, Shelikhov, having returned to Russia, hired Alexandr Baranov to manage his fur trading enterprise in Russian America.

In 1775 Shelikhov married Natalia Alexeyevna Kozhevina, the daughter of a prominent clan of Okhotsk navigators and mapmakers and their wives.

[6] She died in childbirth seven years later, but had at least one surviving daughter, Olga Nikolaevna Rezanova, who married Kharkiv Governor-General Sergey Aleksandrovich Kokoshkin.

Grigory Shelikhov was a founder of the predecessor of the Russian-American Company.
The settlement of Grigory Shelekhov in Kodiak Island .
Grigory's wife Natalia Alekseevna Shelikhova
Shelikhov's granddaughter Olga Nikolaevna Kokoshkina by Karl Hampeln