Muscovy's eastward expansion encounters relatively little resistance. …
Years: 1576 - 1587
Muscovy's eastward expansion encounters relatively little resistance.
In 1581 the Stroganov merchant family, interested in fur trade, hires a Cossack leader, Yermak, to lead an expedition into western Siberia.
Yermak defeats the Siberian Khanate and claims the territories west of the Ob' and Irtysh rivers for Muscovy.
Locations
People
Groups
- Russians (East Slavs)
- Belarusians (East Slavs)
- Ukrainians (East Slavs)
- Moscow, Grand Principality of
- Tatars
- Cossacks
- Kazan, Khanate of
- Astrakhan Khanate
- Sibir, Khanate of
- Siberian Tatars
Topics
- Russo-Kazan Wars
- Russian Colonization of Siberia
- Russo-Kazan Wars: Wars of Ivan IV
- Kazan, Siege of (1552)
- Siberia, Conquest of
