...State Museum. Someone badly needed to know the name of the wife of 19th century Russian-American Co. top official Aleksandr Baranov, the man Baranof Island is named after. The historical experts were called in - specifically Dee Longenbaugh at...

...Sound. Sea otters must be hunted from the ocean's surface because they are clumsy on land and rarely come ashore. Aleksandr Baranov (1746-1819) and other leaders of Russia's far-ranging Alaska fur trade forced experienced Aleut men into...