Ivan Kupreyanov

Biography:

Ivan Antonovich Kupreyanov also spelled in English as Kupreanof was the head of the Russian-American Company in Russian America from 1835 to 1840. He built the famous residence library and museum in Sitka called Baranof's Castle by early American settlers who assumed that it had been built by Alexandr Baranov Kupreyanov's predecessor by eighteen years.