Semyon Yanovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Semyon Yanovsky

Russian politician

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1788

Place of Birth: Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1876

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Semyon Ivanovich Yanovsky (Russian: ????? ???????? ????????; April 15, 1788 – January 6, 1876) was a Russian naval officer who was appointed in late 1818 as Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company, serving into 1820.
He had traveled to Kodiak Island with his commanding officer, Ludwig von Hagemeister, who appointed him to the post.
The Russian-American Company conducted trading and colonization based in present-day Alaska.
Yanovsky was replaced in 1820 by Matvey Ivanovich Muravyev, who had been selected by the Board of the RAC. Weeks after the naval party reached Kodiak Island in 1817, Yanovsky married Irina Baranova, daughter of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, the Chief Manager of the RAC since 1799.
She was half-Aleut.