This beautiful 18-minute documentary on the history of Fort Ross introduces the Kashaya, Russian, and Ranch era, and includes footage of modern day Cultural Heritage Day. It highlights new and archival footage, as well as a passage read in Kashaya describing the indigenous people's oral history of the arrival of the first Russians.  This documentary was produced thanks to a generous donation from Chevron and Russian companies Sovcomflot & TransNeft.

The best comprehensive short history of the peoples occupying the Fort Ross site. Explores the details of life from the times of the original Kashaya, the 19th century colonial Russians and native Alaskans, and of the later ranch era families. Origins of the state historical park formation and the area's unique natural history are also described. 54 pages, 36 color images 

Lyn Kalani and Sarah Sweedler have culled the Fort Ross photographic archives to create a fascinating pictorial narrative of the Russian settlement and the Sonoma North Coast. The accompanying text is based on up-to-date research by Russian American scholars. Arcadia Publications, Images of America series, 2004; 128 pages.

Beautifully illustrated, with new archival material, this is our first bilingual (English & Russian) publication. Includes newly researched and constructed Rotchev House exhibits and recently discovered letters of Alexander and Yelena Rotchev. 108 pages, 81 color images. 



The old Salt Point Township no longer exists as a political entity, but it is very much alive as the large and scenic Northwest wedge of California’s Sonoma County. Its long coastline and rugged interior have seen surprisingly varied kinds of human endeavor over the last century and a half. This unscholarly history describes the hundred years from 1841 to about 1941 - from the exodus of the Russians from Fort Ross until the outbreak of World War II. In these years, the township’s American and European settlers logged, built lumber chutes, ranched and farmed. Their villages, roads, schools, hotels, civic and social organizations are all discussed here as well. 218 pages, illustrated: over 265 maps, drawings and photos; “a picture on every page.”

Translated and Annotated by Glenn Farris. From the Foreword: This description of Bodega Bay and Fort Ross was published in 1854 by Cyrille Laplace in the sixth volume of his work, Campagne de Circumnavigation de la Fregate L'Artemise pendant les annees 1837, 1838, 1839, et 1840 sous le commandement de M. Laplace, capitaine de vaisseau. Laplace was captain of the French ship Artemise on a circumnavigation of the globe during the years 1837-1840. This work has heretofore only been translated in small sections.

The Russian-Mexican Frontier: Mexican Documents Regarding the Russian Establishments in California 1808 -1842. Transcription, translation, and annotation by W. Michael Mathes, with the assistance of Glenn Farris. This latest publication put out by the Fort Ross Interpretive Association provides researchers a wonderful compilation of documents that offer valuable insights into the Spanish and Mexican attitudes toward the Russian-Alaskan community that set itself up at Bodega Bay and Fort Ross in the first four decades of the 19th Century.  333 pages.

The woodblock-style Fort Ross pin, designed by Maggie Rudy, measures 1-1/4 x 1 inches  and is made out of metal.

Embroidered patch measures 4 x 3 1/4 inches.

Embroidered patch commemorating 200 years of Fort Ross, measures 4 x 3 inches.

Soft magnet measures 3 x 2 inches.