Fort Ross

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English: Fort Ross, a former Russian fur trade outpost, located on the coast of Northern California (United States). It was established by the Russian-American Company and functioned from 1812 till 1841. It is designated a United States National Historic Landmark and is part of the Fort Ross State Historic Park, a California state park.
Русский: Форт Росс - русская крепость на западном калифорнийском берегу Америки, основанная Русско-Американской компанией для промысла и торговли пушниной. Форт функционировал с 1812 по 1841 гг. В настоящее время это – музей, принадлежащий штату Калифорния и объявленный объектом исторической ценности национального значения.

History [edit]

  • Section of Coast of Northwest America from Fort Ross to Point Great Bodega [Tomales Point], 1817 (corrected 1819) Ship Kutuzov

  • Fort Ross painting by an unknown artist (1817)

  • Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (Russian Александр Андреевич Баранов), first governor of Russian Alaska, painting from 1818

  • Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskov

  • Aleut in Festival Dress in Alaska, watercolor by Mikhail T. Tikhanov, 1818

  • Balthazar, Inhabitant of Northern California, painting by Mikhail T. Tikhanov, 1818

  • Unalashka Natives with their Canoes (1827)

  • View of Fort Ross 1828 by A. B. Duhaut-Cilly

  • Settlement Ross, sketch by Ilya Gavrilovich Voznesenskii (1841)

  • Sketch of the Chernykh Ranch by I. G. Voznesenskii (1841)

  • Fort Ross circa 1865, earliest photo of the cove and fort

  • Fort Ross Cove before 1900

  • Fort Ross after the 1906 earthquake

Modern reconstruction [edit]

  • Rotchev House

  • The chapel

  • Inside the fort

  • A blockhouse

  • View of the fort from the beach

  • A view from the beach

  • A view of Fort Ross from the outside

  • View from the corner window

  • View of the bay

  • New dwellers: a harbor seal

  • Harbor seals and seagulls near beach

  • Bell outside Chapel at Fort Ross

  • Inside of Fort Ross


Camera location

38° 30′ 51.35″ N, 123° 14′ 36.88″ W

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