ON SOUTH CENTRAL VILLAGES
IN ALASKA
Historical Dena'ina villages
and the (year) that an Orthodox Chapel was built there
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The following names and dates
were extracted from the journals of Russian
Orthodox Missionaries from 1883 to 1934. The journals were
translated by Andrei A. Znamenski
In
1853, Russian Orthodox missionary Hegumen Nikolai, recorded that he routinely
ministered to a group of 7 villages: Aleksanderovsk, Seldovia,
Ninilchik, Kustatan, Tyonek, Susitna and Knik
and some of THOSE villages were broken up into camps. Knik, for instance,
was a group of 5 (hunting or fishing) camps that Nikolai ministered separately
to. As late as 1893, Old Knik had only 3 permanent houses and 1 trading
post. The larger part of that Dena'ina population was scattered within six
miles of Knik Village. In Tyonek, people lived in their village about 4
months out of the year, the rest of the time they lived in seasonal (hunting
and fishing) camps.
Priest
Hegumen Nikolai's confessional registers (1847 and 1850) showed that Russian's
(who worked for the RAC), such as Peter Kalashnikov, Nikolai Eliseevskii,
Evgaf Iakovlev, Ivan Balashov and Zinovii Berestov married Dena'ina women
at Kenai. St. Nicholas Redoubt free settlers: Savva Kiselev a peasant
from the Tobolsk District in European Russia and Peter Osipov, a Sakha
Native from Eastern Siberia also married Dena'in women. Unfortunately,
the womens names were seldom recorded.
Generally,
Russian Orthodox missionaries visited the Cook Inlet area twice a year
to teach the faith, hear confessions, perform communions, baptizms, last
rites and funerals. The first trip, of the year, was, traditionally,
a summer trip to the villages of Tyonek, Kustatan, the 5 seasonal
Knik camps and 2 seasonal Susitna camps before the fish run. The
second trip took place in March when the Priest went to Seldovia, Aleksanderovsk
and Ninilchik. SOME villages (because
of bad weather conditions, illness, etc.) went 1 to 2 years between visits
from a Priest and the only mention of village births, marriages or deaths,
during those years, were brief and incomplete entries in missionary journals.
At the end of their mission, Priests were often sent back to Russia.
February 21, 1882
Missionary Vasilii Shishkin visited Mulchatna: "From last fall to
the present, 9 people have died in Mulchatna from Scarlet Fever. During this
visit, Jacob Kakilishtukta, the Mulchatna 'toion' died. Church registers
show there should be 144 people in this village, but a large part of them
have either died or moved away. The new register says there are only 27 people
in Mulchatna."
1883
Priest Hieromonk Nikita reported that a "coughing illness" struck
Kenai. Twenty nine children, under the age of 8 died of the
disease in 1883 and the next year it killed children and adults in other
villages as well. Pregnant women were very hard hit by this disease and
100% of those who were sick when they gave birth, died soon after.
July 19, 1885
The Priest, Hieromonk Nikita, baptized an adult Mednovtsy
(Copper River) Native “who was converted from paganism" and received the
name of Nikolai after his godfather.
Vladimir
Stafeev, a Russian, who first worked as an agent at the RAC trading post
at St. Nicholas Redoubt (Kenai) in the 1860's, married a Dena'ina woman
who was the daughter of a "toion". He also worked at Tyonek as an agent
for the ACC trading post from 1884-1888. In 1887, in Tyonek, he traded
with three Mednovtsy Natives; two of them were Bychanishta and Kechigiugunuglin.
He baptized the men and renamed them Pavel and Karp, two Dena'ina men from
Tyonek acted as godparents (Pavel Shitachka and Karp Nukhdichugin).
August 20, 1887
Missionary Vasilii Shishkin visited Chikak Village, which was 8 boat
hours from Iliamna. There he baptized 14 adult Kenaitze. "The village totaled
36 and only 9 people are healthy. The children are covered with festering
growths, and some of the adults are so ill that they have not been able to
move for several years. Nobody knows where this infectious disease came from."
1888
Tyonek had 130 residents, including
children.
1889
Russian Priest, Nikolai Mitropol’skii, said it was
not easy communicating with the Mednovtsy people. To do that, his Russian
language had to be translated into the Knik tongue, then someone who
could speak both Knik and Mednovtsy had to translate it from the Knik
tongue to the Mednovtsy tongue. Of course, all replies had to go
through the two translators (in reverse) as well. That summer, many
Mednovtsy came to Knik to be married by the Priest. He estimated there
were 500 Mednovtsy who lived in the Copper River area.
July 24, 1890
Missionary Shishkin visited Iliamna Village. He performed
a service for the villagers who died of influenza in the fall of 1888 until
February of 1889. Twenty-one people died of influenza. He also visited
the village of Kichik where 16 had died from influenza.
1891
Three white men, living in Knik,
hanged a Mednovtsy Native man because he killed a white trading post agent
5 years earlier. Russian Priest, Nikolai Mitropol’skii, stated that one
of the white men went by the name of Miller.
The flu is epidemic at Ninilchik, people are so ill,
that there isn’t sufficient help to bury the bodies.
1893
In a report to his superiors, Russian Priest Aleksander Iaroshevich
wrote that he was in charge of 7 village chapels. To take care of church
business while he was away, he assigned 3 men (in each village) to care for
the chapel:
The "toion" who took care of the chapels money.
The "zakazchik" who was in charge of village hunting and fishing.
The
church warden who was in charge of cleaning the chapel and selling prayer
candles.
ALEXANDROVSK VILLAGE: Alexander Shagi was the "toion", Nicholai Shukhi was the "zakazchik" and Dionisii Maltsev was church warden. There was also a song leader named Ivan Munin.
SELDOVIA
VILLAGE: Feodor Berestov was the "toion", Nikolai Baiiu is the "zakazchik",
and Zakhar Balashov was the church
warden.
NINILCHIK
VILLAGE: Faroshevich wrote that Ninilchik was a "creole settlement"
so they did not have a "toion" or "zakazchik", but they did have a church
warden named Feodor Kvasnikov and a man w ho baptised infants, his name was
Aleskwi Oskolkoff. The church also had two song leaders: Grigorii Oskokoff
and Ioann Pamfilov.
KUSTATAN
VILLAGE: Peter Chickalusion was the "toion". Gavriil Achitliklukt was
the "zakazchik" and Konstantin Takache was the church warden.
TYONEK
VILLAGE: Konstantin Kundukuliashin was the "toion". Peter Unikhliachguliakhliak
was both the "zakazchik" and the church warden. A Kenaitze, Alexander Sichkatakhin,
who was fluent in Russian, baptized infants.
SUSITNA
VILLAGE: Peter Tikhkunukhtilusion was the "toion". Ivan Tutauekhshtukhta
was the "zakazchik" and Stepan Kachtagan was the church warden.
KNIK
VILLAGE: Peter Kunachtukhta was the "toion". Afanasii Tukchun was the
"zakazchik" and Mikhail Tishdilusion was the church warden.
October 1, 1893
The following members of the Kenai Missionary Assumption Church
pledged to donate 25¢ a month to support the church,the school and
needy parishioners:
Aleksander Iaroshevich (priest)
Aleksei Ivanov (song
leader) Starosta
Ivan Ivanov
Aleksander Demidov
Ioann Sorokovikov
Anton Ivanov
Makar Ivanov
Evgeniia
Iaroshevich
Filipp Ivanov
Marfa Ivanov
Lavrentii
Mishakoff
Faddei Ukotli
Sergei Mishakoff
Stepan L'tatel'tisha
Nicolai Iukisat
Peter Kal'khinekhutakha
Innokentii Shakai
Nikanor K'iul'khkish
Evfimii Kal'chakakhutaka
Vasillii Kliakva
Nikolai Makuloff
Nikifor Mishakoff
Stepan Mishakoff
Antonii
Bakel'chushin
Innokentii Tatutliutmia
Stepan L'kankata
Feodor Chuljin
Daniil Kal'khnish
Peter Mishakoff
Dmitrii Priskokin
Nikolai Kalifornskii
Nikolai Balitaeliush
Avel' Vutkatakha
Nikolai Bakhketulikturkta
Peter Kinga
Stepan Mishakoff
Aleksei Pamfilov
Ivan Oskolkoff
Konstantin Sorokovikov
1894
Russian Priest, Aleksander Iaroshevich, writes that there
are few people living in Knik. He said that most people who were considered
Knik residents, actually lived in various locations scattered in a
radius of 6 miles around Knik. Knik Village was located up
river, 12 miles from it’s chapel.
Iaroshevich
trained Ruf Stepanov and Nikolai Kulikrukta of Old Knik to be song leaders.
Nikolai Kulikrukta later moved to Susitna where he was a psalms reader.
The
ACC agent at Knik, in the winter of 1894, was A. Krison. Another man named
George Palmer was also in Knik that winter (listed as a miner). On 12/19/1894
Father Aleksander Iaroshevich wrote in his journal that George Palmer
took Pelagaia Chanilkhiga, a local Kenaitze widow (who had 3 young sons
and was pregnant with a 4th child) as his concubine.
1895
Gold was discovered on the Kenai Peninsula and thousands
of miners came to the area. The villages of Tyonek and Knik became
major supply points for these miners. Russian-American Co. (RAC) records
state that 150 Indians and 40 white people lived at Knik in 1906.
Ten years later, there were 500 white people.
1/15/1895
Father Aleksander Iaroshevich was teaching Ruf Stepanov of Knik
and Nikkolai Kulikrukta of Tyonek to read and write Russian, so they could
become readers in the church.
February 9, 1895
Missionary Vladimir Modestov was at Iliamna Village. "This village
was founded by Creole Savva Riktorov, a trade agent for the RAC, who had
2 wives silultaneously. Four sons were born to the 1st wife and 4 more sons
were born to the 2nd wife.
2/27/1895
Priest Aleksander Iaroshevich arrived at "Chuvitna Village", 4 miles
from Tyonek. He was taken in by Mr. and Mrs. White, where he stayed for almost
a month before weather and travel conditions allowed him to get to the Kenai
side.
7/29/1895
Missionary Vladimir Modeestov reported the following people living
at Iliamna Village:
RIKTOROV,
Kosma [Kusma] age 57
RIKTOROV, Daria age 28 wife
RIKTOROV, Vavara [Barbara] age 4 daughter
RIKTOROV,
Vasilii age 51
RIKTOROV, Mariia [Mary] age 41 wife
RIKTOROV, Mikhail age 26 son
RIKTOROV, Stefan [Stephen] age 21 son
RIKTOROV, Paraskeva age 15 son
RIKTOROV, Gavriil age 5 adopted son
RIKTOROV,
Evfim [Efim] age 53
RIKTOROV, Afafiia age 37 wife
RIKTOROV, Ioann age 23 son
RIKTOROV, Varvara [Barbara] age 11 daughter
TUKNIKHLIUSHEN,
Dariia age 100 widow
RIKTOROV,
Vassilissa age 38 widow
RIKTOROV, Mikhail I age 19 son
RIKTOROV, Mikhail II age 17 son
RIKTOROV, Sophia age 16 daughter
RIKTOROV, Lukeriia age 3 daughter
TAGNAKHRUKHTA,
Simeon age 35
TAGNAKHRUKHTA, Evdokiia age 28 wife
TAGNAKHRUKHTA, Ekaterina [Catherine] age 5 daughter
TAGNAKHRUKHTA, Nikita age 6 daughter
TAGNAKHRUKHTA, Agafiia age 2 daughter
KILTKIDE,
Kirill age 32
KILTKIDE, Mariia [Mary] age 23 wife
KILTKIDE, Anna age 4 daughter
BUITOKHA,
Mikhail [Michael] age 75 widower
BUITOKHA, Kirill age 35 son
L'KUDKHUGTUT,
Stefanida age 22
L'KUDKHUGTUT, Varvara [Barbara] age 6 daughter
L'KAGLIAGA,
Aleksei age 43
L'KAGLIAGA, Akilina age 28 wife
L'KAGLIAGA, Sofia age 5 daughter
IVANOV
[Evanoff], Zakharii [Zakhar] age 38
IVANOV [Evanoff], Anastasiia age 28 wife
IVANOV [Evanoff], Marfa age 6 daughter
IVANOV [Evanoff], Evfimii [Efim] age 5 son
IVANOV [Evanoff], Paraskeva age 2 daughter
GRIGORIEV,
Nikolai age 43
GRIGORIEV, Marfa age 20 wife
GRIGORIEV, Marfa age 4 daughter
GRIGORIEV, Grigorii age 2 son
TUGNUKADILEN,
Ioann [Ivan] age 26
TUGNUKADILEN, Ekaterina [Catherine] age 21 wife
TKIL'KIDE,
Ioann [Ivan] age 44
TKIL'KIDE, Mariia [Mary] age 38 wife
TKIL'KIDE, Ignatti age 7 son
TKIL'KIDE, Zakharii [Zakhar] age 1 son
KONAL'TUKTA,
Feodor [Fedor] age 44
KONAL'TUKTA, Dariia age 35 wife
KONAL'TUKTA, Stefan [Stephen] age 16 son
KONAL'TUKTA, Zinovii age 1 son
KONAL'TUKTA,
Evdokiia age 18
KONAL'TUKTA, Paraskeva age 1 daughter
BAKUN,
Stefanida age 50 widow
BAKUN, Panteleimon age 29 son?
ZAKHAROV,
Grigorii age 24
KIBUL'KAHK,
Savva age 24
L'KAGLIAGA,
Nikolai age 21
KOIDUL'KIL,
Andrei age 40
KOIDUL'KIL, Anna age 38 wife
KOIDUL'KIL, Gerasim age 18 son
KOIDUL'KIL, Mikhail [Michael] age 10 son
KOIDUL'KIL, Nikolai age 7 son
KOIDUL'KIL, Ekaterina [Catherine] age 4 daughter
KOIDUL'KIL, Paraskeva age 2 daughter
ROEHL,
Fred
ROEHL, Mariia [Mary] age 32 wife
ROEHL, Sergei age ? son
ROEHL, Mariia [Mary] age ? daughter
ROEHL, Sofia age ? daughter
ROEHL, Feodor [Fedor] age 8 son
ROEHL, Vladimir age 6 son
ROEHL, Vasilii age 2 son
NELSON,
Christian
NELSON, Mariia [Mary] age 38 wife
1896
Priest Ioann Bortnovski nominated Peter Chickalusion (a "toion" at
the Kustatan Village), and Stepan Tuchketelketan (a "zakazchik")and Aleksei
Kalifornskii (of Kalifornsky Village) to receive awards for their work in
the church.
1897
Priest Ioann Bortnovskii was at Tyonek to pick up
Ivan Kvasnikov so they could both go to Knik. Kvasnikov was an interpreter
and song leader. About 50 gold miners were wintering at Tyonek. Bortnovskii
and Kvasnikov left for "Old Knik" where they found many new houses, large
stores and a saloon. The previous winter, about 100 American miners stayed
in Knik, as well as a some soldiers that were sent to the area by the U.S.
Government, to build a road from Knik to Yukon. The previous summer, the
soldiers laid 250 miles of a road and reached the Mednovtsy villages. Eventually
they plan to reach the Yukon River. Because of the influx of "Americans" into
the Knik area, the Kenaitze are moving their people across the Inlet to "New
Knik". They even disassembled their St. Nicholas chapel
and took it to New Knik (Eklutna) and reassembled it.
1900
Priest Ioann Bortnovskii traveled to Susitna
and stopped at a summer fish camp built by Knik Natives. He learned
that many were ill but even more were starving because the salmon had not
yet reached Susitna. He said that the dogs were also starving and they looked
like “moving skeletons”. At Susitna, Bortnovskii noticed that the
women were just as skilled (as the men) at handling small boats and bidarka's.
He described 3 stores in the area; 2 in the village of Susitna and 1 at
lower Susitna village. The agent at the Susitna ACC store wanted to
marry a Knik Kenaitze woman with whom he had lived with for a long time
and had many children. He also noted that 2 Susitna men had abducted a Copper
River Native girl.
July 6, 1900
Russian Priest Bortnovskii performed the marriage for
ACC agent, Arthur McConahay and Mapoy, a Knik Kenaitze girl who had lived
with him for 7 years and they had 4 children. McConahay, a local
trade agent, contributed to building the new chapel at Susitna, both in
money and advise. He also gave free food to the people who were building
the chapel in 1902.
July 7, 1900
A new cannery was built in Chubutnu, which was not far from Tyonek.
It has 4 fish tanks and 60 fishermen along the shoreline in the Tyonek area.
The government project of building a road to Yukon, through Susitna, ended
due to its enormous expense. The soldiers and horses were all moved to
Valdez.
Priest
Ioann Bortnovskii lectured the Kenaitze in Tyonek about the evils of drinking
and told them to stop brewing a beer that they called "makula".
The
Alaska Commercial Company has closed its stores in Susitna, Kenai, Kasilof,
Knik and Seldovia. Private stores were taking their place.
April 25, 1902
Priest Bortnovskii baptized a baby named Pavel, the infant son of
a white man who is married to a Kenaitze woman at Seldovia.
April 29, 1902
Bortnovskii gave last rights to a dying man, in Seldovia, named Ivan
Iakovlev.
June 20, 1902 Priest Bortnovskii
mentions visiting what he calls the “1st Knik” which was a summer nomadic
camp and that only 2 Native families were living near the Knik chapel.
June 24, 1902 Bortnovskii performed a wedding for a local Kenaitze woman at Tyonek (who had “illicitly lived with a white man named Harry Hicks"). The Priest also performed a funeral for a Tyonek man named Peter who died that day.
June 29, 1902 Bortnovskii performed last rights for a Kenaitze woman named Olga who was very sick in her tent.
December 15, 1905
KANGALLEN VILLAGE: A child was born to Kenaitze Native
Pavel Konstantineovich and wife Anna, the babies name was Feodor.
May 12, 1906
NAPAMIUT
VILLAGE: Grigorii, infant son of Vasilii Ashipiak died.
May
13, 1906
Missionary Nikifor Amkan reported that, on
a trip to Kangallen Village, he stopped and baptized a baby, named Anisiia
Tagian (born 4/3/1906) to Makarii Chiliklanak and his wife Anna.
May 14, 1906
VICINITY OF NAPAMIUT VILLAGE: Missionary Amkan baptized
Anisiia Tagian infant daughter of Makarii Chiliklanak and lawful wife
Anna. Baby was born May 3, 1906. Godparent was Natalia, wife of Vasilii
Tagnigakh of Napamiut Village. Another baby, Irina, daughter of Feodosia
Iaganin was born in April of 1906. Her Godparent was Mariia
Chimgak of the Napamiut Village.
May
18, 1906
MOUTH OF STONEY RIVER: Missionary Amkan baptized Marva,
infant daughter of Epifanii and his lawful wife Marfa Ivanov. The Godparent
was Mariia the wife of Sergie Andreanov.
May
24, 1906
KANGALLEN VILLAGE Baptism's:
#1:
Daughter of American Grigorii Mikhailovich Hobson and his lawful wife Tatiana
Konstantinovna. The godmother
was Mariia Vladimirovna, wife of Ivan Konstantinov. Babies
name was Ekaterina.
#2:
Son of Kiril Tokhteion and his wife Agafiia. Godfather was Kirill I'akovlevich.
Babies name was Feodor.
#3:
Daughter of Pavel Konstantinov and wife Anna. Godmother was a Kenaitze maiden
named Agaffia Ivanovna.
Babies name was Elizaveta.
#4:
Daughter of Vasilii Ivanovich and Evlalia. Godmother was a maiden named Alexandra
Ivanovna Kal'tita. Babies
name was Maria.
May 29, 1906
NUKACHAOGMIIUT VILLAGE: Missionary Amkan baptized Agnia,
daughter of Native named Lazar Klimentov Achimati and wife Evgeniia.
The baby was born mid-April. Godparent was Pelageia Ivanov, wife
of Kiril Klimentov.
January 5, 1907
KANGALLEN VILLAGE: Missionary Nikifor Amkan baptized three infants:
#1: Son of Nikolai Konstantinovich and wife Aleksandera. Baby born
12/27/1907 and named Evfimii.
#2: Son of Pavel Konstantinovich and wife Anna. Baby born 12/15/1907
and named Feodor.
#3: Son of Vasilii Ivanovich and wife Ivlaliia. Baby born end of October
1907 and named Konstantin.
January 9, 1907
Missionary Amkan baptized daughter of Trifon Vasiliev Broder and
wife Maria from Vonzai Village. Baby born 12/26/1906 and named Agafiia.
The Godmother was Mariia Simeonovna of Vonzai Village.
January 21, 1907
Ekaterina Mishakoff joined the Temperance Society in Seldovia and
pledged not to drink for the rest of her life. Paros Danilova and Anna Shangai
joined and pledged not to drink for a year.
January 29, 1907
Vlasii Anakhupak died in Aleksanderovsk Village.
The Russian Orthodox church started the St. Nicholas
Temperance Society at Seldovia. The Natives took an oath saying they
would not drink for a certain length of time. The following list
is important because it gives us names we wouldn’t normally have access
to:
January 21, 1907
Ekaterina Mishakoff took an oath for the rest of her life.
Paros Danilova and Anna Shangai took an oath for
1 year.
February 19, 1907
Iosif Z. Oskolkoff quit his membership because his
oath had expired.
February 26, 1907
Afanasii Almanakh arranged a supper for the society
members.
March 4, 1907
Iakov Oskolkoff took an oath for 1 year.
Agripina Bakhov took an oath for the rest of her life
Peter Bakhov took an oath for 1 year
Vasilii A. Demidov took an oath for 1 year
March 11, 1907
Matrena Ltultish took an oath for the rest of her life.
Aleksander Abakhchi renewed his oath.
Maria Abakhchi took an oath for the rest of her life.
Tatiana Knukhuutil took an oath for 2 years
Nikolai Mishakoff took an oath for 2 years
Lukia Mamalia took an oath for 2 years
Tatiana Viadro took an oath for 2 years
Nikolai Soloviev took an oath for 2 years
Engenii Man took an oath for 2 years.
Anastasiia Baktuit took an oath for 1 year.
Anna Sorokovikov took an oath for 1 year
Akilina Kiiu took an oath for 1 year
Feodor Chulgin took an oath for 1 year
April 2,
1907 KENAI
Joseph Tugubik quit the membership because their oaths
had expired
Afanasii Almanakh quit the membership because their oaths
had expired
Aleksei Mednovsky quit the membership because
their oaths had expired
April 8, 1907
Akakii Kanitak died in Seldovia.
Nikolai Tishdilusion took an oath for 1 year.
Peter Vedro took an oath for 2 years
Aleksei Knikov took an oath for 2 years
Alexandra Knikov took an oath for 2 years
Nadezhda Mednovsky took an oath for 2 years
Simeon Chickalusion took an oath for 3 years
Anna Bakhov took an oath for the rest of her life.
April 18, 1907
Anna Ivanov took an oath for 1 year.
April
19, 1907
Aleksander D. Daryn took an oath for 2 years
Stepan Knushdul took an oath for 2 years
April 21, 1907
Iosif Z. Oskolkoff took an oath for 10 years.
Afanasii Almanakh took an oath for 1 year.
Maxim Knukhuutil took an oath for 3 years.
Grigorii P. Oskolkoff took an oath for 5 years
Feodor Kvasnikov took an oath for 1 year.
April 22, 1907
Aleksei Mednovsky renewed his oath for 1 year.
April 23, 1907
Philip Wilson took an oath for 1 year.
April
30, 1907
Pavel Kalifornskii took an oath for 3 years.
Nikonor Ltultish took an oath for 3 years.
May 10, 1907
Mikhail Balashov took oath for 5 years
Anisiia Balashov (his wife) took an oath for 5 years
Timofei Balashov took an oath for 5 years
Aleksei Berestov took an oath for 5 years
May 13, 1907
Evgeniia Agina took an oath for life.
Irina Mamchak took an oath for life.
Grigorii Anakhukak took an oath for life.
Evgeniia Mamchak took an oath for life.
Marfa Mamchak took an oath for life.
Ljubov Abapak took an oath for life.
Sofia Anakhupak took an oath for life.
Elisaveta Mamchak took an oath for life.
Andrei Agikjia took an oath for life.
Timofei Maltsev took an oath for life.
May 14, 1907
Peter Nossikii, a Japanese took an oath for life.
Paraskoviia Nosskaia took an oath for 1 year
Illarion Ljuka took an oath for 1 year.
June
10, 1907
Flor Fomin expelled from Temperance Society for breaking
oath.
Alex Ryan expelled from Temperance Society for breaking
oath.
September 17, 1907
Sofia Wilson took an oath for 2 years
Vasilii Petrov took an oath for 2 years
Simeon Yunisin took an oath for 2 years.
October 8,
1907
12 people violated their oaths to the
Temperance Society and were expelled:
Feodor Malia
Lukiia Malia (his wife)
Evgeniia Mann
Maxim Knukhutil
Tatiana Knukhutil (his wife)
Pavel Morfei
Mikhail Kasilofsky
Alkdsei Kaviak
Victor Inchidishin
Vasilii Indchidishin
Stepan Kustatanosky
Daria Oskolkoff
1907
Priest Bortnovskii quit and was
replaced by Priest Pavel Shadura.
End
of October 1907
KANGALLEN VILLAGE: A son named Konstantin was born to Kenaitze
Native Vasilii Ivanovich and wife Ivlaliia.
December 26, 1907
KANGALLEN VILLAGE: A daughter named Agafiia, was born
to Trifon Vasiliev Broder and wife Maria of the Vonzai Village.
Godmother was Mariia Simeonovna from Vonzai.
December 27, 1907
KANGALLEN VILLAGE: A son named Evfimii, was born to Kenaitze
Native called Nikolai Konstantinovich and his wife Aleksandera.
1908-1909 MARRIAGES:
William McKeon (Presbyterian)of Seldovia married a Dena’ina
widow named Anna Nanitak.
Malcolm McNeil of Knik married Dena’ina woman named Anna
Chickalusion.
William Hughes of Knik married Dena’ina
woman named Maria Stepanova of Susitna village.
Andrei Tolchok, a Dena'ina from Seldovia married Marfa Tapani a resident of Aleksanderovsk
Posto Laverne a Philippino
married Olga Nikanoroff of Kenai.
Hans Siversen of Minnesota married Dena’ina woman Yenlu
Nudlash Brooks from Old Nondalton.
Jack
Kinney, gold prospector in Mulchatna District in 1909, married Elena Balauta
from Qeghnilen.
Priest Shadura, in a letter, talks about his reasoning for letting 2 young girls get married before the respectable age of 16. He does not say who they married, but says the girls were: Ekaterina Mishakoff age 14 and Olga Vaiudulchik age 15 of Kenai. He says he let the girls get married because they already had children and because the girls parents gave permission for them to marry.
1911
Matt Hute, a white man, wanted to marry a young girl
that will not become 16 until 1912. Priest Shadura tells him he
must wait.
1916
The Kenai church has one priest and one song leader. The priest
receives $900 a year from the church mission fund and the song leader receives
$360 a year.
Priest from 1845-1868 Hegumen Nikolai
Priest from 1881-1886 Hieromonk Nikita
Priest from 1888-1892 Nikolai Mitropol'skii
Priest from 1893-1897 Aleksander Iaroshevich
Priest from 1897-1907 Ioann Bortnovskii
Priest from 1907 to 1917 Paul Shadura
Song
Leader from 1845-1853 Stefan Sorokovikov
Song Leader from 1853-1870 Makarii Ivanov
Song Leader from 1870-1875 Ffedor Demidov
Song Leader from 1875-1887 Nikolai Sorokovikov
Song Leader from 1887-1902 Aleksei Ivanov
Song Leader from 1902-1905 Aleksander Deikar
Song Leader from 1905-1912 A. Demidov
Song Leader from 1912-1917 Nikolai [Konstantin?] Sorokovikov
1917
Pavel [Paul] Shadura,
came to Alaska in 1900. At first he worked as a song leader then as a deacon
on Unga and Kodiak. In 1907 he was ordained as a Priest and assigned to the
church in Kenai. Ten years later, Shadura's income came to a halt when the
Bolshevik Revolution destroyed the finances of the Russian Church. He had
no budget to go on missionary trips to other villages. Shadura's only allowance
(from the church) was $300 per year, so he supported his family by fishing
and cutting wood for canneries.
Paul
Shadura born: 1/15/1875 Minskoy, Russia died: 5/5/1956 Seattle, Washington
He married: Katherine Hubley, daughter of Isaac Hubley of Nova Scotia and
Tatiana Nekrasov, an Aleut.
Katherine Hubley was born 5/2/1882 in Unga, Alaska and died 8/23/1957 in
Tacoma, Washington
They married 8/8/1901 in Unga, Alaska
Children: Paul born 1902 in Unalaska
Tatiana born 1905 in Kenai
Madge born 1907 in Kenai
Peter born 1911 in Kenai
Alexander born 1913 in Kenai
Isaac born 1918 in Kenai
1927-1929
Nikolai Kalifornskii of Kenai was the church warden (elected
by the people instead of appointed by the church).
He was the father of Peter Kalifornsky.
1930’s: Savva Stephan was put in charge of maintaining a chapel at Tyonek.
June 17, 1933
Tyonek moved to a new village site. All of the icons, alter
etc. had to be re-blessed because they were damaged and fell down
during the earthquake. Old Chief Chickalusion knew how to read Russian and
he was teaching Nickefor Alexan (a Tyonek boy) how to read to the church.
Nickefor held church services after Chickalusion died.
August 20, 1934
Priest Shadura took the train to Eklutna Village and cleaned
the chapel where church services had not been performed since 1912. He said
the chapel had fallen into decay and some items were rotting, while others
were already gone because nobody cared for them. He said the Kenaitze were
starting to come back to Eklutna and had made some repairs to the chapel
such as putting a new roof on and raising the ceiling. He also heard confession
from the children from the "industrial orphanage school".