Ermakov's capture of Siberia: controversial problems of history and source study
Monograph
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Nizhnevartovsk
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The monograph proposes new interpretations of the testimony of sources, mainly chronicles, that have preserved information about the “Trans-Ural epic” of the 1580s, and substantiated in many respects other than before solutions to the issues of “Ermakov's capture” of Siberia that have long been discussed in historiography. In particular, about the number and composition of the Cossack "squad" that defeated "Kuchum's kingdom", the origin and circumstances of the death of its leader, the fate of his closest associates, the Cossack campaigns on Tavda and the Ugra land, the immediate consequences and the historical role of the famous expedition, which marked the beginning of the formation Asian Russia.
