Description

This hagiographical text tells the life story of Father Ioann Veniaminov (1797–1879) one of the greatest of the Russian Orthodox missionaries to Alaska. In the early 1820s, Veniaminov volunteered to go to Alaska and settled with his wife and family in Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands. He built a church and school and began his lifelong task of studying the native languages, customs, and way of life of the native peoples of Alaska. He created written versions of several of the languages using the Cyrillic alphabet. In 1840, following ...