Weeks after the naval party reached Kodiak Island in 1817, Yanovsky married Irina Baranova, daughter of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, the Chief Manager of the RAC since 1799.
Hagemeister was assigned in 1817 by the Board of the RAC to investigate the finances of the Russian-American Company in New Archangel, and deputized to appoint a replacement Chief Manager if he believed it necessary.
Soon after being stationed there, Semyon began a romance with Irina Baranova, the mixed-race, half-Aleut daughter of the Chief Manager.
[2] At the age of 70, Baranov was replaced in early 1818 by Hagemeister, who had been directed to review his financial accounting for the Company and appoint a successor.
Like his predecessors, Yanovsky continually requested the company to recruit doctors for work in Russian America; the first arrived in 1820.
[5] Informing his superiors of the many costs that would be incurred from such ventures, Yanovsky persuaded the company against pursuing immediate explorations in the area.