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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: YERMAK, THE CONQUEROR OF SIBERIA AT the time of the Tsar Ivan the Terrible,1 the Strogonofs were rich merchants, and lived in Perm, on the river Kama. They had heard that on the river Kama, for a hundred and forty versts around, there was rich land; the soil had not been plowed for a century; the black forest for a century had not been felled. In the forests were many wild animals, and along the river were lakes full of fish, and no one lived in this land except wandering Tartars. So the Strogonofs wrote a letter to the Tsar: -- Grant us this land, and we ourselves will found cities, and we will gather men together and establish them, and we will not allow the Tartars to pass through it. The Tsar consented, and granted them the land. The Strogonofs sent out agents to collect people. And there came to them many people who were out of work. The Strogonofs assigned lands and forest to all who came, gave cattle to each, and agreed not to tax them during their lives, and only required of them that if it were necessary they should go to fight the Tartars. Thus this land was settled with a Russian population. Twenty years passed. The Strogonof merchants grew richer and richer, and this territory of one hundred and forty versts became too small for them. They wanted still more land. Now there were lofty mountains a hundred versts distant, the Urals, and they heard that beyond these Urals was excellent land. The rulerof this land, which was boundless, was a petty Siberian prince named Kuchum. 1 loann Vasilyevitch Groznui, 1530-1584. 1 Tsartk. In former times Kuchum had given his allegiance to the Russian Tsar, but since then he had revolted, and he was threatening to destroy the Strogonof colonies. And again the Strogonofs wrote to the Tsar: -- ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217757669
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217757669
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 463 gr


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