Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv is a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia. He has published more than two hundred articles, primarily on the history and ethnology of Russian America. Grinëv is the author of several books, including the two previous volumes in this series: Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741–1799 (Nebraska, 2018) and Russian Colonization of Alaska: Baranov’s Era, 1799–1818 (Nebraska, 2020). Richard L. Bland is a research associate for the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. In addition to this volume, he also translated the two previous volumes in this series.