"Sergei Ionovich Kostromitinov (1854-1915), or "Colonel George Kostrometinoff
From a Creole Teenager to the Number-One Russian-American Citizen of Sitka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2734407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kan (0000-0001-8565-0528, Dartmouth College, corresponding author), Sergei Kan |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 385-402 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00141801-2140704 |
| OpenAlex | W2036184632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
Sergei Kostromitinov was born in 1854 to a Russian employee of the Russian-American Company and a Creole woman. Fluent in Russian and English and conversant in several native languages, he became an interpreter for Alaska's American authorities and an indispensable cultural broker among the region's Euro-American, Russian-Creole, and native communities. Thanks to that role as well as his political skills and successful commercial activities, Kostrometinov became the leading Russian-American citizen of Sitka-Alaska's first capital-serving as the warden of its Orthodox cathedral as well as the president of the chamber of commerce, a lieutenant colonel in the territorial militia, the secretary of the local historical society, and so forth. This essay explores the strategies he used to maintain his privileged position within the local Euro-American elite without abandoning his Russian patriotism and commitment to Russian Orthodox Christianity. It also shows that the price of Kostrometinov's success was an almost total denial of his Creole ancestry and a certain estrangement from Sitka's Creole community
Annexation · Charge (physics) · Creole language · Denial · Economic history · Elite · Patriotism · Political science · Politics · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Psychology
True Heirs to a Heroic Russian Past" or "Russians in Name Only
"Raymond D. Fogelson's "The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents
Mixed Communities in the Russian North; Or, Why Are There No "Creoles" In Siberia
The Legacy of the Russian-American Company and the Implementation of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in the Kodiak Island Area of Alaska
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |