Feeding the Russian Fur Trade: Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639–1856

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BIBLIOGRAPHY Most of the written records for this study have been published; it is not based primarily on archival documents, despite their allure. The published sources vary considerably both in kind and in quality, ranging from spare decrees to elaborate reports and from scientific treatises to impressionistic travel accounts. Some sources, like Krasheninnikov's Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (Description of the Land of Kamchatka), are classic authorities; and many of the travel accounts are reliable, since their authors-such as Simpson, Davydov, and Erman-were, despite personal prejudices, welleducated , intelligent, perceptive observers. Some of the secondary sources are in effect primary sources, since they incorporate documentary material now lost or destroyed; for example, Sgibnev's invaluable series of articles on Okhotsk and Kamchatka were based on local archives that were subsequently burned. Few archival records remain, and most of the pertinent remnants are found in the "Muller portfolios" (TsGADA), which contain material collected by the father of Siberian history. Several valuable documents, such as Chirikov's 1746 report to the Admiralty College on the economic development of the Russian Far East (Tsentralny gosudarstvenny arkhiv Voyenno-Morskovo fiota, f. Golovina, d. 1) and the Yakutsk archivist's report (ca. 1830) on state transport between Yakutsk and Okhotsk (Tsentralny gosudarstvenny arkhiv Yakutskoy ASSR, f. 12, op. 1, d. 49), were unavailable because I was refused permission to use their depositories and was unable to obtain microfilm copies. Most of the relevant Soviet archives, however, as well as all the relevant Soviet libraries, admitted me during a ten-month sojourn in the U.S.S.R. Regrettably, a couple of available documents were overlooked, including the reports by Governor Soimonov of Siberia on agriculture in Kamchatka (TsGADA, f. 214, op. 18, no. 2,724) and on the provisionment of Okhotsk from Yakutsk (Gosudarstvenny istorichesky muzey, Otdal pismennikh istochnikov, f. 395, n. 5). Pre-nineteenth-century documents, which were 285 286 B IBLI 0 G RAP H Y often difficult to read, necessitated work in paleography-the Faculty of History of Moscow State University kindly gave me free lessons in this-in metrology and in chronology. Almost all published sources are available in the Lenin Library in Moscow and in the Public Library in Leningrad; however , before entering the Soviet Union I had already used most of these sources in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the Helsinki University Library via visitation, interlibrary loan, or photoduplication . 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