1731
- punkar7
- May 18, 2015
- 1 min read
In Kamchatka the Russians savagely crushed the Itelmens uprisings against their rule
1730-1731 War with Chukchi people : Tsar Peter the Great ordered a Russian military expedition to conquer the Chukchi. The Russian commander Major Pavlutskiy was responsible for the Russian war against the Chukchi and the mass slaughters and enslavement of Chukchi women and children, but his cruelty only made the Chukchis fight more fiercely. The command was that the natives be "totally extirpated" with Pavlutskiy leading again in this war from 1744-47 in which he led to the Cossacks "with the help of Almighty God and to the good fortune of Her Imperial Highness", to slaughter the Chukchi men and enslave their women and children as booty. However the Chukchi ended this campaign and forced them to give up by killing Pavlitskiy and decapitating him
1714-1809 Russian conquers most of Finland from Sweden
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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