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Maybe the quiet and try to return to Alaska?
What are your favorite, who knows what the future bring ...))) Suddenly one day yes it is true ...
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December 16, 1866 in St. Petersburg held a special meeting, which was attended by Alexander II, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, the finance ministers and the Ministry of the Navy, as well as the Russian ambassador in Washington, Baron Edward A. Stoeckl. All participants endorsed the idea of selling. At the suggestion of the Ministry of Finance has been defined threshold amount - not less than 5 million dollars in gold. December 22, 1866 Alexander II approved the border area. In March 1867 Stoeckl arrived in Washington and formally addressed to Secretary of State William Seward.
The signing of the contract of sale of Alaska on March 30 1867 in Washington. An area of 1.519 million square kilometers was sold for 7, 2 million dollars in gold, ie, 4, 74 dollars per sq km (much more fertile and sunny French Louisiana, purchased from France in 1803, cost the US budget a bit more expensive - about at $ 7 per sq km).
Around this time, gold was discovered. The region developed slowly until the beginning of the gold rush in the Klondike in 1896. During the years of the gold rush in Alaska produced about one thousand tons of gold that the prices in April 2005 corresponded to 13-14 billion dollars.
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For reference:
December 16, 1866 in St. Petersburg held a special meeting, which was attended by Alexander II, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, the finance ministers and the Ministry of the Navy, as well as the Russian ambassador in Washington, Baron Edward A. Stoeckl. All participants endorsed the idea of selling. At the suggestion of the Ministry of Finance has been defined threshold amount - not less than 5 million dollars in gold. December 22, 1866 Alexander II approved the border area. In March 1867 Stoeckl arrived in Washington and formally addressed to Secretary of State William Seward.
The signing of the contract of sale of Alaska on March 30 1867 in Washington. An area of 1.519 million square kilometers was sold for 7, 2 million dollars in gold, ie, 4, 74 dollars per sq km (much more fertile and sunny French Louisiana, purchased from France in 1803, cost the US budget a bit more expensive - about at $ 7 per sq km).
Around this time, gold was discovered. The region developed slowly until the beginning of the gold rush in the Klondike in 1896. During the years of the gold rush in Alaska produced about one thousand tons of gold that the prices in April 2005 corresponded to 13-14 billion dollars.
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