A history of the Russian American Company : vol. 2, documents / P. A. Tikhmenev ; translated by Dmitri Krenov ; edited by Richard A. Pierce and Alton S. Donnelly.

Tikhmenev compiled generously with a long appendix to this second volume (St. Petersburg, 1863) comprising the documents presented here. These documents are from the correspondence, orders, and reports of Shelikhov, Baranov, and Rezanov and other individuals, notable and obscure, from 1783 to 1807. They are indispensable for the study of the writers and their careers, the administrative and economic problems of colonizing a new land, and relations with the natives and with foreign powers. They are in their original order except for the citation given Shelikhov and Golikov by the Governing Senate in 1788 -- from Preface.