{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"Siberia\n","author_name":"Amelie Lanier","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/siberia.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/siberia.html'\u003ESiberia\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EThe conquest of Siberia started during the reign of Ivan IV. (the Terrible). About 1581 a large group of Don Cossacks set out across to Ural to submit the vast areas on the other side of the Ural, then known by the name of Jurga, to Russian rule. They were pursued to do so by the members of a rich merchant family, the Stroganovs, and counted with the approval of the tsar.\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Cossacks were the descendants of serfs who had fled from the 14th century on from their native soil in the \u003Ca href=\"..\/siberia.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}