In the early 19th century, the unsuccessful Sv. Nikolai voyage helped prevent what is now the northwest coast of Washington State from becoming a Russian colony tied to Alaska, a possibility that might later have placed that part of New Albion within British-owned Canada when U.S.-Canadian boundaries were set by the 1846 Oregon Treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain. John Quincy Adams, U.S. ambassador to Russia from 1809 to 1814 and a friend of Czar Alexander I, was influenced in part by reports of the Sv. Nikolai incident sent to St. Petersburg, which became one of the inciting factors behind the 1823 Monroe Doctrine that he authored as Secretary of State under President James Monroe, declaring that America would intervene when European imperial powers tried to colonize or meddle with nations in the Western Hemisphere. After the Sv. Nikolai was beached and could not rendezvous at Grays Harbor with the Kad’iak under Ivan Kuskov, Kuskov sailed south to Northern California and then returned to Sitka, headquarters of the Russian American Company. In 1812, acting under Governor Baranov’s orders, Kuskov returned to Northern California and established an agricultural and fur trading colony on the Pacific coast 15 miles north of Bodega Bay at the promontory now known as Fort Ross. In 1815, after a cargo of Russian American Company furs beached at Waimea, Kaua’i, in the Hawaiian Islands, Baranov sent the Prussian physician Gregor Schaffer to recover them, but Schaffer instead tried to found a Russian colony in Hawai’i. Kamehameha forced Schaffer from Kaua’i and out of the islands after Schaffer encouraged Kaumuali’i, the king of Kaua’i, to oppose him. Baranov then sent Sv. Nikolai leader Timofei Tarakanov to Waimea, and after being forced across the Kaua’i Channel to Honolulu Harbor aboard a leaking ship, Tarakanov led the Russian party safely back to Sitka while Schaffer fled Hawai’i and abandoned them. Surviving Russian American Company forts and settlements from the 19th century remain across the North Pacific, including sites at Sitka in Southeast Alaska, Fort Ross north of San Francisco, and Fort Elisabeth-Pa’ula’ula o Hipo at Waimea and Fort Alexander at Pua Poa Point at Princeville on Kaua’i.