x8o CON Q^U EST OF SIBERIA. 



then rendered tributary ; and as the Ruffians extended 

 their conquefts, this appellation was afterwards applied 

 to the whole tradl of country which now bears that 

 name. 



For fome time after the above-mentioned expedition, 

 the Tzar does not appear to have made any attempts to- 

 wards recovering his loft authority in thofc diftant re- 

 gions. Bvit his attention was again turned to that quar- 

 ter by a concurrence of incidents ; which> though begun 

 without his immediate interpofition, termin^ited in a vail 

 acceffion of territory. 



strogonofF Strogouoff, in recompence for having firft opened a 



,T,e'Kama°an(i tradc With thc Inhabitants of Siberia, obtained from the 

 Tzar large grants of land ; accordingly he founded colo- 

 nies upon the banks of the rivers Kama and TchuJTovaia ; 

 and thefe fettlements gave rife to the entire fubjedion of 

 Siberia by the refuge which they not long afterwards af- 

 forded to Yermac TimofeefF. 



This perfon was nothing more than a fugitive Coflac 

 of the Don, and chief of a troop of banditti who infefted 

 the fliores of the Cafpian fea. But as he was the inftru- 

 ment by which fuch a vaft extent of dominion was added 

 to the Ruffian Empire, it will not be uninterefting to 

 develop the principal circumftances, which brought this 



Coflac 



