Uno cygnaeus in old sitka, Alaska

Abstrakti

The young Finnish pastor Uno Cygnaeus left Finland for Sitka in Russian America on September 12, 1839. The passengers on the 'Nikolaj' were mostly Russians but there was a group of Finns, too. Besides the director of the Russian American Company Arvid Adolf Etholén, who also acted as Governor-General of contemporary Alaska and his wife Margareta, née Sundvall, the passengers consisted of Etholen's nearest man lieutnenat Johan Bartram a young physician/nauralist Reinhold Ferdinand Sahlberg and sone others