1712

Decree was adopted that Ingrians land should be provided for the new Russian settlers and so Russian villages appeared.

• 1711-1812 Russia occupied Bessarabia five times

• 1700-1721 The Great Northern War

• 1700-1900 The Slavic Russians outnumber all of the native peoples in Siberia

• 1600-1800 The Yukaghir population was considerably reduced in the 17th-19th centuries owing to epidemics, internecine warfare and the colonization policy of the tsarist government

• 1628-1746 To the dismay of the Russian conquerors in Nenets people lands, there were constant uprisings, in which the Nenets also participated. Caravans of tax collectors were raided and Russian strongholds attacked. In a period of one hundred years the Pustozersk stronghold in northeastern Europe suffered six major attacks

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