Russian
EmpireÕs March
across Siberia
¥1550-1858 major period of Russian empire eastward expansion
(most rapidly 1550-1650)¥1581 start of wave of Slavic
eastward expansion that reached Pacific in 1640
¥1652 Baykal area annexed
¥1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk – Russia
& China
–Russia gets all land north of watershed of Stanovoy
Mtns.
–China granted land on both sides of Amur and all of AmurÕs tributaries
east of the Argun River
–Source of Sino-Soviet conflict
¥ this diffusion process:
¥Politically organized
¥Military and semi-military Cossacks, extracting fur tribute from small indigenous
populations, built small forts (ostrogs) all the way