Anna Petrovna Bulygin, the eighteen-year-old wife of Sv. Nikolai captain Nikolai Isaakovich Bulygin, was the first European woman known to live in what is now Washington State after landing with the ship's crew. As the Russian American Company party fled south, a subterfuge by tribes gathered at the mouth of the Hoh River during a canoe crossing led to the capture of Anna and Aleut women accompanying her, causing her husband to go mad temporarily. To survive, his party hiked up the Hoh River and built a primitive blockhouse for the winter. When the captain wanted to ransom Anna with muskets, his men refused because the weapons were essential for survival. In spring 1809, when Captain Bulygin and his men returned to the river mouth to speak to her, Anna urged him and his men to surrender and said she was being well treated by her Indian captors. Bulygin later surrendered, and while he was held captive as a slave at Neah Bay by the Makah Tribe, he was reunited for a time with his wife. Anna died in August 1809, possibly receiving a tribal burial, and the heartbroken Bulygin died of consumption in February 1810. Timothei Tarakanov, the Sv. Nikolai supercargo and leading promyshlennik of Governor Baranov at Sitka, Alaska, led the Russian American Company party through shipwreck, flight, a winter refuge on the upper Huh River, enslavement, and eventual rescue. Raised in Kursk, Russia, and recruited for his ability to survive in Siberia and Alaska, he had already survived a massacre at the Russian American Company island fortress at Sitka in the early 1800s. Though assigned to the voyage as Captain Bulygin's aide, he became the party's leader during its ordeal. The Makah tribe came to embrace Tarakanov as a chief for his military advice, cleverness in kite flying and other western skills, and standing as an equal to their warriors and hunters. He later escaped from a Spanish dungeon in San Francisco Bay, served at the Russian Fort in Kaua’i, Hawai’i, and returned with a wife and child to Kursk, where he received his freedom and became a citizen in recognition of his heroic service to the Czar and the Russian American Company.