Yermak’s Campaign in Siberia: A Selection of Documents Translated from the Russian by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman

332 Pages·1975·152.441 MB·English

by  Terence Armstrong

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Yermak’s Campaign in Siberia
A selection of documents translated from the Russian
by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman
Edited by
TEREnCE ARMSTRong
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YERMAK'S CAMPAIGN
IN SIBERIA
A selection of documents
translated from the Russian by
Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman,
and edited,
with in introduction and notes3
by
TERENCE ARMSTRONG
HAKLUYT SOCIETY
LONDON
1975
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS page vii
PREFACE ix
INTRODUCTION i
Muscovy's eastern frontier in the i6th century I
The Stroganovs 3
The campaign 6
The cossacks, Yermak, and his band 9
Yermak as folk-hero, by W. Harrison 13
Routes into Siberia 18
Non-Russian peoples 20
The chronicles 24
The illustrations 29
Later published accounts 31
THE STROGANOV CHRONICLE 35
THE YESIPOV CHRONICLE 62
THE REMEZOV CHRONICLE 87
THE NEW CHRONICLE 278
ROYAL CHARTERS AND LETTERS RELATING TO
THE ADVANCE ACROSS THE URALS
4 April 1558 281
25 March 1568 284
6 August 1572 288
30 May 1574 289
6 November 1581 292
16 November 1582 293
7 January 1584 294
REFERENCES 296
INDEX 3«>5
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ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
The conquest of Siberia by Yermak* by V, I, SratsoY, 1895,
Painting at the State Russian Museum, Leningrad frontispiece
Map i» The of operations of Yermak's campaign. Mam
source - map at the end of G, F, Miller, Istorjya SiMri (Moscow^
I937)» Tom I facing page 18
Map 2, Non-Russian peoples in the Urals region in the late i6th
century page 21
Figs 1-154. Original iEustrations accompanying the Mirovich
Yersion of the RemezoY chronicle^ held at the Library of the
Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, call no. 16,16,5 pages 88-276
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