Journey Through Russia and Siberia, 1787-1788: The Journal and Selected LettersUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1966 - 293 pages |
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Page 68
... towns had proceeded slowly and their population had remained quite small ; Yakutsk for example counted 610 inhabitants in ... town of Irbit is located just east of the Urals ; the monastery Makar'ev on the upper Volga was the site of an ...
... towns had proceeded slowly and their population had remained quite small ; Yakutsk for example counted 610 inhabitants in ... town of Irbit is located just east of the Urals ; the monastery Makar'ev on the upper Volga was the site of an ...
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... town to coun- try and petty bourgeois from country to town.24 Because Siberia's early expansion and colonization followed existing water routes , towns were generally located on large rivers or bodies of water . In the eighteenth ...
... town to coun- try and petty bourgeois from country to town.24 Because Siberia's early expansion and colonization followed existing water routes , towns were generally located on large rivers or bodies of water . In the eighteenth ...
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... town . Barnaul , which grew out of a silver - smelting plant established in 1738 , became a town in 1771 and served as the administrative center of the Altai mining district . At the end of the seventeenth century over 60 percent of the ...
... town . Barnaul , which grew out of a silver - smelting plant established in 1738 , became a town in 1771 and served as the administrative center of the Altai mining district . At the end of the seventeenth century over 60 percent of the ...
Contents
A Biographical Sketch | 3 |
Significance and Problems of Interpre | 32 |
Siberia in the Eighteenth Century | 53 |
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