...Anthropology in St. Petersburg, Russia, half a world away from his ancestral home, which had once been the capital of Russian North America. At Tuesday's service, Cyril George, a former classmate of Walton at Sheldon Jackson School in Sitka, opened...

...the Russian-American Company was founded in Alaska. The company monopolized all commercial enterprises in Russian North America and held almost all political power in the region. Until the U.S. government purchased Alaska in 1867, Siberian-North...