Semyon Yanovsky
| Semyon Yanovsky | |
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| 3rd Governor of Russian America | |
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In office October 24, 1818 – September 15, 1820 |
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| Preceded by | Ludwig von Hagemeister |
| Succeeded by | Matvey Muravyev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 15, 1788 Glukhov, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 6, 1876 (aged 87) Kaluga Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Spouse(s) | Irina Baronova |
Semyon Ivanovich Yanovsky (Russian: Семён Иванович Яновский; April 15, 1788 – January 6, 1876) was a Russian naval officer who was appointed in late 1818 as Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company, serving into 1820. He had traveled to Kodiak Island with his commanding officer, Ludwig von Hagemeister, who appointed him to the post. The Russian-American Company conducted trading and colonization based in present-day Alaska. Yanovsky was replaced in 1820 by Matvey Ivanovich Muravyev, who had been selected by the Board of the RAC.
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. She was half-Aleut.
Yanovsky, a member of the aristocracy, attended the St. Petersburg Naval Institute to train as an officer. After graduating, he was recruited to the service of the Russian-American Company (RAC) in 1816, which drew from the navy for its leaders. He acted as second-in-command to Ludwig von Hagemeister, a Baltic German.
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. Chief Manager Alexander Andreyevich Baranov had been serving since 1799. Hagemeister and Yanovsky reached the settlement in late 1817, in present-day Alaska.
Soon after being stationed there, Semyon began a romance with Irina Baronova, the mixed-race, half-Aleut daughter of the Chief Manager. Baronov had had three children with his Aleut mistress, whom he had married in 1807 after learning that his wife had died that year in Russia. Yanovsky and Irina married six weeks after they met.
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