1722

Russians occupied Derbent

• The first Russian settlements were founded as military strongholds (1722 Ust-Tara, Kainsk, Kargat) or by deported peasants.

• A Russian military expedition sailed in support of the independence of two Christian kingdoms, Kartli and Armenia.

• 1722-1723 War with Safavid Persian Empire

• 1714-1809 Russian conquers most of Finland from Sweden

• 1714-1722 The Mansi were baptized on a mass scale. The conversion was a formality only, the old cults of animism and shamanism were preserved.

• 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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