The Russians came to Baikal in the summer of 1643, headed by a Tobolsk Cossack, Kurbat Ivanov, who had gathered 75 hunting, serving and idling people` and came out to the lake at the Maloye Sea region. Kurbat`s guide was Mozheui, a Tungus prince. As Mozheui said, in 1640 'the Russian people - Cossacks - roamed on Lama (on Baikal), and from whence those Cossacks had come and since when they'd been roaming on Lama, no one had any idea.... 'Kurbat Ivanov, 'with his mates drew a plan of Baikal, and of silty lakes, and of rivers falling into Baikal... and on Baikal where a fortress could be built'. In 1646, down the Yenisei and Angara Rivers from Yenisei Fortress, ataman Kolesnikov came with a Cossack detachment to Baikal 'in order to survey silver ores, whatever the site.' The ataman and his Cossacks reached the Upper Angara River, where he founded the Upper Angara Fortress in 1646, and a year later Baikal saw the appearance of Ivan Pokhabov with his men-at-arms who came to search for silver lodes; following him there came another detachment with a boyar son, Ivan Galkin, who placed the Barguzin Fortress on Baikal in 1648. Galkin managed to levy a tribute on the people living on the shore and investigated the areas near Baikal, but failed to trace any gold and silver lodes. The forts on the lake became an important link in the trade route between Russia and China. The idea of freedom from serfdom and of free land has driven many Russians to Siberia between the 17th and the end of the 19th centuries. Simply said, centuries of independent life in wild nature have made Siberian Russians reliable, strong, traditional, and nature-respecting. These people differ from central Russians and are respected much in Russia. |
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