One of the principals of the Shelikhov-Golikov Company was Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov, a Siberian fur merchant. On August 3, 1784, Shelikhov arrived in Three Saints Bay on the southeast coast of Kodiak Island with his wife and a party of 192 men and proceeded to construct the first permanent Russian settlement in North America. Shelikhov’s wife, Natalya Alexyevna, was likely the first European woman in Alaska.
