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Book/Printed Material Zapiski ob atkhinskikh aleutakh i koloshakh. I. Veniaminova, sostavli︠a︡i︠u︡shchie tret'i︠u︡ chast' Zapisok ob ostrovakh Unalashkinskogo otdela. Записки об атхинских алеутах и колошах. И. Вениаминова, составляющие третью часть Записок об островах Уналашкинского отдела.

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Title

  • Zapiski ob atkhinskikh aleutakh i koloshakh. I. Veniaminova, sostavli︠a︡i︠u︡shchie tret'i︠u︡ chast' Zapisok ob ostrovakh Unalashkinskogo otdela.

Other Title

  • Записки об атхинских алеутах и колошах. И. Вениаминова, составляющие третью часть Записок об островах Уналашкинского отдела.

Translated Title

  • Notes on the Aleuts of Atka Island and the Kolosh by Ioann Veniaminov. The Third Part of Notes on the Islands of the Unalaska Department.

Summary

  • Father Ioann Veniaminov (1797-1879) was one of the greatest of the Russian Orthodox missionaries to Alaska. In the early 1820s, Veniaminov volunteered to go to Alaska and settled with his wife and family in Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands. He built a church and school and began his lifelong task of studying the native languages of the region. He created alphabets for several native languages. In addition to the languages, he was deeply interested in the customs and way of life of the native peoples of Alaska. This book, the third in a series of works about the people of the Unalaska area, describes the native Alaskans and the work of the missionaries among them. It also includes songs and folktales in native languages. In 1840, following the death of his wife, Veniaminov took the monastic name Innokentii and was made bishop of the newly created diocese of Kamchatka and the Kuril and Aleutian Islands. He later served as Metropolitan of Moscow, the second-highest position in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was canonized by the church in 1977.This book, published in Saint Petersburg in the 1840s, was digitized at the National Library of Russia in the early 2000s for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project. World Digital Library.

Headings

  • -  Aleuts
  • -  Ethnology
  • -  Missionaries
  • -  Tlingit Indians
  • -  United States of America
  • -  Alaska
  • -  Unalaska

Notes

  • -  Izdano izhdiveniem Rossiĭsko - Amerikanskoĭ kompanii.
  • -  Original text at: National Library of Russia
  • -  Издано иждивением Российско - Американской компании.

Medium

  • 154 pages ; 22 x 15 cm

Source Collection

  • Rare Books from the National Library of Russia

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018693951

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Chicago citation style:

Zapiski ob atkhinskikh aleutakh i koloshakh. I. Veniaminova, sostavli︠a︡i︠u︡shchie tret'i︠u︡ chast' Zapisok ob ostrovakh Unalashkinskogo otdela. 1840. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018693951/.

APA citation style:

(1840) Zapiski ob atkhinskikh aleutakh i koloshakh. I. Veniaminova, sostavli︠a︡i︠u︡shchie tret'i︠u︡ chast' Zapisok ob ostrovakh Unalashkinskogo otdela. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018693951/.

MLA citation style:

Zapiski ob atkhinskikh aleutakh i koloshakh. I. Veniaminova, sostavli︠a︡i︠u︡shchie tret'i︠u︡ chast' Zapisok ob ostrovakh Unalashkinskogo otdela. 1840. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018693951/>.