An extensive and comprehensive treatment of the Russian Orthodox missions in Alaska from the mid eighteenth to nineteenth centuries drawn from the primary sources of letters, reports and other literature of those in the field. Includes full translations of a number of important documents including letters of St. Herman of Alaska, St. Innocent's "Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven" and the diary of the first native Aleut priest, St. Iakov Netsvetov.

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