If Russia was selling Alaska today rather than in the 1860s, what would that $7.2 million price tag be worth? One inflation calculator website puts the number at $101.1 million as of 2016.

As such, Russian Old Believer culture in Alaska remains little changed from its earlier heritage. Of course, Old Believer culture has evolved somewhat in the past 355 years.

Here's a map of New Russia: Wikimedia Commons The vast Russian empire peaked in 1866, when it included Ukraine, Finland, Alaska, Belarus, and others. Putin dismissed a question ...

The Yakunin clan was much smaller in 1968 when they started building a Russian Orthodox village called Nikolaevsk in an isolated corner of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. Members of the Old Believers--a ...