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H-Net ReviewsMemory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two Centuries
The Tlingit people in Alaska gravitated towards the Russian Orthodox religion due to its similarities between their own animistic religion and because of the "respect" shown by the Russian fur traders as opposed to the more paternalist Americans. They combined elements of both to form their own version of Orthodoxy, which is practiced in southeast Alaska to this day.
Post any significant Russian-American contributions, history, ect... here!
David Sarnoff (Founded the Radio Corporation of America RCA)
Vladmir Zworkin (Invented Television)
Carl Sagan (Astronomer and popularizer of science)
Misha Rostapovich (Celist and composer)
Samuel Goldwyn (Co founder of MGM)
Stanford Ovshinsky (Pioneer of Ovonics (electrnics made with amporphous silicon like solar cells)
And this little story about someone in Israel learning French has what to do with the topic, exactly?
Back on topic: here are some great Russian-Americans.
Igor Sikorsky
Mikhail Baryshnikov Vladimir Nabokov
I always thought it interesting to learn that Nabokov was living in Ashland, Oregon for some time when he finished Lolita and then wrote Pnin. The house he stayed at in the 1950s actually burnt down while I was in college in Ashland in 1999. Seemed like such a strange place for Nabokov to end up writing in, but apparently he liked butterfly collecting in the hills above town and even through in a reference to Crater Lake in Lolita.
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