Petr Beketov This is Me

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1. 1. Timeline 3: 1600-20th Century

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   I, your humble servant, Petr Beketov, together with the servitors and the promyshlennik, thanks to God's mercy and your luck, Sovereign, brought under your Sovereign Tsarist mighty hand on the Lena River many divers Tungus and Iakut lands for you, great Sovereign Tsar and Grand Prince Mikhail Fedorovich of all Russia. I, your humble servant, collected iasak from these many divers Tungus and Iakut lands for you, . . . for the year 1632 which consited of 18 forties of sables." (Reprt to Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich from the streltsy sotnik Petr Beketov concerning his expedition on the Lena River) (Dmytryshyn 136) 1633
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   August: Beretov [Beketov] founds Zhigansk, just north of Arctic Circle on Lena River
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   September: Beretov [Beketov] founded Yakutsk; becomes important headquarters for exploration of the northeast and southeast (Dmytryshyn reproduces Beketov's report where he says it was September 1633 that he "built an ostrog [Iakutsk] on the Lena River. . . . There had never before been any of the Sovereign's ostrogs anywhere on the Lena River in the Iakut territory. . . ." (Dmytryshyn 144) 1635
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   Petr Beketov sent to restore tsar's authority 1653
   
   Beketov explored the Selenga, Ingoda and Shilka rivers on rafts, founded Irgensk and Nerchinsk (across from mouth of Nercha River) 1667