I had been looking at the letters a little bit ago and just sort of gave up because they donāt make a wordā¦but the third step in Steveās clue (thanks to @Mr5yy for reminding us) says āyou will need to find the phrase I seekāā¦so maybe itās okay that it doesnāt make a word?
Tyvteya from front to back. Shvoiho from back to front.
Hereās just sent guess work Iāve done:
1 theatrics 1
5 penmanship 2
7 cartoon 2
2 mayhap 3
3 eaves 3
4 extoll 3
6 mayhem 3
I rearranged the words by their numbers on the right, but kept them in order with their left number, so 3ās are numbered 2,3,4,6. Going from their, I tried to see if I could get make something out of it by taking out the specific letter from each word. I started with the left side numbers, one 1, two 2, and four 3 and I got this:
Teayvty
I also tried it by taking out the left side numbers (1-7) in my rearranged order and I got this
Tanavom.
Iām thinking that it might be one of these ways in the original version of the words or maybe weāre supposed to remove letters and rearrange the left over letters in a phrase.
I was thinking maybe weāre supposed to read the letters/parts quickly to get the actual message (like āsofa kingā sounding explicit if you read it fast enough), but no luck on my end just yet.
Well, āTanavomā sounds like āten of emā if you say it fast
Iām bored.
Also disappointed.
But mostly bored.
Hereās a hint.
Informal, crazy, mixed-up soricidae leads out (4)
Sign spotted for medical attention while commuting drives straight into a spruce (5)
Lowest, easterly town the earliest Russians settled first. (7)
Well, the universal sigh for first aid and medical stuff is a cross, though the colour varies per country. Five lettersā¦
I googled āsoricidaeā and got a Shrewā¦
I completely forgot about this! Sorry Steve!
Vladivostok comes to mind for the last oneā¦
sorry steve! i honestly just assmed that we hit a snag and werent working on it again.
most easternly town the russians ever settled is anadyr.
āport town and the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.ā apparently its an interesting placeā¦?
Heh, I think I got one!
Informal, crazy, mixed-up soricidae leads out (4)
@Nimueh 's clue of Shrew capitalized triggered a memory I was once dragged to a showing of Kiss Me, Kate. Itās about the production of taming of the Shrew. The female leadās name in the original play is Katherine.
So an informal Shrew: Kate
Mixed-up : Take
leads out. Take out.
So the first word is Take.
I would apologize, but I had finals.
Three
Signs on the highway denoting a hospital are a big H, spruce is a tree, put the H in the tree.
What about somewhere in Alaska/California? I know it wouldnāt be the earliest Russians, but it could go with them settling someplace first.
The capital of Russian colonization in N. America was New Archangelsk (New Archangel) also know as Siska, Alaska. Wikipedia shows that the first permanent settlement was done by Grigory Shelikhov, but I canāt find its name. The first trading post, which I would consider a town because this thing was massive, was Unalaska.
Edit: Does Steve mean easterly by east of Russia or easterly as the east coast?
That is a good question. It is somewhat vague, is it not?
Real useful, Steve. 
Thanks for that.
āYou canāt always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you needā