schuwalow

Updated: July 15, 2026

As they were vassals of Count Schuwalow, who then had a grant of the whale fishery, M. Le Roy requested of him that they might be sent from Archangel to St. Petersburgh, where he could satisfy himself respecting their adventures. Accordingly two of them arrived, Alexis Himkof, aged about fifty and Iwan Himkof about thirty.

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