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Yermak Timofeyevich and the Russian Conquest of Siberia
How did a Cossack chieftain, hired by the Stroganov merchant family, topple the Khanate of Sibir and open Siberia to Russian expansion? In Episode 92, Lucas and Luna explore the career of Yermak Timofeyevich, the folk hero whose 1582 campaign against Kuchum Khan changed Eurasia forever. They discuss the Stroganovs' role as frontier colonisers, the technological edge of firearms over Tatar archery, the Battle of Chuvash Cape, and the contested story of Yermak's death. They also consider how tsars Ivan the Terrible and Boris Godunov capitalised on Yermak's gamble, and how…
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