Remezov Siberian Chronicle

Remezov Siberian Chronicle: a Chronicle / record source. Covers AD 1577 – 1651, with 67 events in chronological order. Text license and provenance included.

TypeChronicle / record
ViewpointInsider account
Years coveredAD 1577 – 1651
Events67 events, 21 placed on the map
AuthorСемён Ремезов(편찬, 원문 말미 암호 「Писалъ Семенъ Ремезовъ」)
Original titleРемезовская летопись по Мировичеву списку

Regions: Eastern Europe & Russia 67

Events

YearPlaceEventPassage
AD 1577AstrakhanErmak's band plundered merchant ships and a Persian embassy on the Oka, Volga, and Caspian; on October 1 the tsar sent Ivan Murashkin with orders to seize them and execute them wherever caught.레메조프본 ст.5
AD 1578 – 1579Ermakovo gorodishche (Sylva)Ermak's band went up the Volga and Kama rivers as far as Ermakovo Gorodishche above the Sylva, spent the winter there, and plundered the Bogulichi.레메조프본 ст.5 (10–11)
AD 1578 – 1579(Moscow → Stroganov)Ivan IV, hearing that Stroganov had given food and weapons to Ermak's band, sent him a letter of rebuke.레메조프본 ст.7
AD 1579Chusovaya river / Tagil portageErmak received food and weapons from Stroganov and on June 12 set out up the Chusovaya River toward the Tagil portage across the Urals (the source gives a force of 5000 men).레메조프본 ст.6–8
AD 1579 – 1580Pelym districtOn the bank of the Tagil River, at the Abugai stream, he conquered the Boguliche ulus, subjugated Tavda, and fought all winter in the Pelym domain.레메조프본 ст.12–13
AD 1580TurinskOn May 1 he came down the Tura River and, near the town of the first Tatar prince Epancha, fought a great battle in a bow-shaped bend and won.레메조프본 ст.14
AD 1580TyumenOn August 1 Ermak captured Tyumen (Chingitura), killed the tsar Chingi, and spent the winter there.레메조프본 ст.15
AD 1580 – 1581TyumenErmak seized Kuchum's envoy Kutugai at Tarkhan, treated him handsomely, showed off his skill with the matchlock arquebus, and sent him back to frighten Kuchum.레메조프본 ст.30–34
AD 1581TyumenOn May 9 Ermak went down the Tura from Tyumen, fought six princes at its mouth, won with 1,060 men, and buried the spoils at the mouth.레메조프본 ст.35–36
AD 1581Karaulny Yar (Tobol)On June 8 they went down the Tobol River and fought a great battle at Berezovy Yar; on June 29 at Karaulny Yar they broke through the chain barrier set up by Kuchum's men and won after three days of fighting.레메조프본 ст.37–38
AD 1581Babasan (Tobol)They stayed a week at the mouth of the Tavda to decide whether to turn back; on July 8, in the land of Murza Babasan, the lead scouting boat was seized and then recovered.레메조프본 ст.39–41
AD 1581Babasan (Tobol)On July 21 at Babasan they fought for five days against Mametkul, son of Kuchum, and won.레메조프본 ст.43
AD 1581Turba mouth (Dolgy Yar)On July 26 at Dolgiy Yar at the mouth of the Turba they met an uncountable enemy and were frightened, but guided by an icon of the Savior they passed through a rain of arrows (a passage on faith).레메조프본 ст.44–47
AD 1581Karachin (town of Karacha)On August 1 they attacked Karachin, the fortress of Karacha, a senior official of Kuchum.레메조프본 ст.48
AD 1581Pachenka / Koshuni (Tavda)Leaving Karachin and going up the Tavda, in a great battle at Lake Pachenka they killed Prince Pachenka; on August 6 they received yasak from Princes Koshni and Chandiri.레메조프본 ст.49–51
AD 1581Tavda → KarachinFighting Prince Patlik of Pelym on the upper Tavda, they saw there was no way beyond the Urals; on October 4 they came back down the Tavda and on November 8 wintered at Karachin.레메조프본 ст.52
AD 1581KarachinThey took the Karachin fortress, gaining great stores of gold, silver, honey and livestock, and stayed there fasting through Advent.레메조프본 ст.53
AD 1581Tobol mouth → IrtyshThey left Karachin on September 14 (7090) and went out from the mouth of the Tobol onto the Irtysh, where Kuchum's great army filled the Irtysh's mouth; though only 45 of Yermak's men were left, they went up the Irtysh.레메조프본 ст.58
AD 1581Atik's town / Chuvash hillThey took the town of Atik Murza on the upper Irtysh and held out there; on October 1 they fought the first battle with Kuchum at the Chuvash Hill barrier, then went back into the town.레메조프본 ст.59–62
AD 1581Chuvash hill (Kashlyk)On October 23 at the foot of Chuvash Hill, Yermak's men launched an all-out assault, defeated Kuchum's archers and spearmen, and hurled two cannons down the hill into the Irtysh.레메조프본 ст.63–64
AD 1581Kashlyk (Sibir)On October 26, amid visions and despair, Kuchum abandoned his capital Kashlyk (Sibir) and fled to the Kazakh steppe.레메조프본 ст.65–68
AD 1581Kashlyk (Sibir)On October 26 Yermak's men entered the empty Kashlyk (Sibir) and took great wealth and grain.레메조프본 ст.69–70
AD 1581KashlykFour days after the entry, Prince Demyan Boyar came with gifts, submitted to Yermak and offered yasak.레메조프본 ст.71
AD 1581Abalak lakeOn November 5, twenty Cossacks fishing on Lake Abalak were wiped out in their sleep by Mametkul's men.레메조프본 ст.72
AD 1582Aremzyan (Irtysh)On March 5 the fifty-man leader Bryazga went down the Irtysh with 50 men, took the fortress of Aremzyan, collected yasak and received oaths of loyalty.레메조프본 ст.73
AD 1582Demyanka mouthThey attacked the great fortress at the mouth of the Demyanka for three days but could not break in; through captured Chuvash intelligence and the threat of attack, the inhabitants fled and yasak was received.레메조프본 ст.74–75
AD 1582Rachev gorodishcheWhen the spring waters rose they changed to light boats and went down; at the altar of Rachev Gorodishche the shamans fled into the forest, and an ambush was beaten off with gunfire.레메조프본 ст.76–77
AD 1582Samar (Irtysh/Ob)On May 20, near the confluence of the Ob and the Irtysh, they attacked Prince Samar's camp on a Sunday, killed him, and set up his heir Alachei.레메조프본 ст.78
AD 1582Belogorye (Ob)At Belogorye the people near the shrine had fled and the place was empty; after three days they turned back and on May 29 returned to Sibir with yasak.레메조프본 ст.79–80
AD 1582ShanshinYermak chased the fleeing Mametkul and beat him at Shanshinsky; the first Cossack dead were buried in the old royal burial ground at South Khan Cape.레메조프본 ст.81
AD 1582Yaskalba marshland (Yaskalbinsky volosts)On December 6 the lords Ishberdei and Suklem of the Yaskalva marshes came with gifts and yasak and submitted; Ishberdei then served faithfully as a guide.레메조프본 ст.82
AD 1582 – 1583MoscowOn December 22 Ivan Kolcho went with his men and the yasak to Moscow by the Wolf Road; Ivan IV rejoiced at the news of the conquest of Siberia and sent Yermak two suits of armor and fur coats.레메조프본 ст.84–85
AD 1583KashlykOn March 1 the tsar's envoy delivered two suits of armor, a fur coat and a letter of praise to Yermak and five atamans.레메조프본 ст.86
AD 1583KularovoMurza Tagin reported that Mametkul was at Bagai; on February 28 Yermak sent sixty young men, who captured Mametkul sleeping at Kulalovo and brought him back.레메조프본 ст.87–88
AD 1583Kod / Nazym / TavdaYermak went down the Irtysh and subdued the fortresses of Kod and Nazim and Prince Alachei; he returned on June 20, and on July 1 attacked Rabuta and Pachenka on the Tavda again and collected yasak.레메조프본 ст.90
AD 1583MoscowOn November 21 Yermak sent the captured Prince Mametkul and the yasak to Tsar Fyodor in Moscow and received hospitality and rewards.레메조프본 ст.91
AD 1583 – 1584KashlykOn May 10 the princes Volkhovsky and Ivan Glukhoy, sent from Moscow, came to Sibir on November 2 with 500 men; many died of hunger, but in spring the Tatar and Ostyak supply of fish and food kept them alive.레메조프본 ст.92
AD 1583Karacha landsOn September 10 Karacha sent envoys who swore a false oath; Yermak sent Kolcho with 40 men, but they were annihilated in Karacha's land.레메조프본 ст.93
AD 1584Kashlyk (Sibir)At Lent, on March 12, Karacha surrounded Sibir with a great army, camped at South Khan Cape and harassed the Cossacks until May.레메조프본 ст.94
AD 1584Kashlyk (Sibir)On the night of May 9 Yermak went out of the fort and raided Karacha's camp, killing two of his sons; the siege was lifted and Karacha fled.레메조프본 ст.95–96
AD 1584Vagay riverOn August 1, hearing that Kuchum was blocking Bukharan merchants, Yermak led fifty men up the Irtysh, dug in at Cape Agit and reached the mouth of the Bagai, but did not meet any Bukharans.레메조프본 ст.98
AD 1584Begish's town (Irtysh)Yermak went up the Irtysh with 300 men and fought a great battle at Prince Begish's fortress against the joint Tatar and Karacha forces; the two cannons brought from Kazan fell into the Irtysh, and he won.레메조프본 ст.99
AD 1584Ust-IshimAt the mouth of the Ishim they fought bare-handed at close quarters; five Cossacks died, and the Tatars made a refrain of it, singing 'янымъ, янымъ, бинть казакъ' (five dead) and calling the song 'Царицынъ плачь' (the queen's lament).레메조프본 ст.100
AD 1584KularyThey besieged the Kulary fortress for five days without breaking in, and turned back saying they would collect it on the way home.레메조프본 ст.101
AD 1584VagayOn the night of August 6 Kuchum ambushed the careless Cossacks in their camp at the mouth of the Bagai; only one escaped and carried the word to Sibir.레메조프본 ст.105
AD 1584VagayYermak, still wearing two suits of armor, leapt into a boat and drowned in the Irtysh (August 6).레메조프본 ст.106
AD 1584Kashlyk → ObThe remaining 150 Cossacks left Sibir on August 15 and went back to Russia over the Urals along the Ob and the Irtysh.레메조프본 ст.107
AD 1584 – 1585Kashlyk (Sibir)Kuchum's son Aley, having moved into the vacated Kashlyk, was driven out by Seydyak, son of Bekbulat, who avenged his father and took Sibir.레메조프본 ст.103
AD 1584Epanchin yurts / Baishev cemeteryOn August 13 the fisherman Yanish pulled Yermak's body from the river at Epanchin Urut; after confirming his armor and keeping it six weeks, they buried him under a pine at the Baishev graveyard.레메조프본 ст.109–112
AD 1584 – 1585Ob (opposite Irtysh mouth)After Yermak's death Ivan Mansurov went down the Irtysh with 100 men, reached the Ob and built a fort before the ice formed, and wintered there.레메조프본 ст.119
AD 1585 – 1586Ob fortWhen Ostyak bands attacked the fort, they set up an idol at Belogorye and offered sacrifice; the cannons shattered the idol, and they scattered in fear and gave yasak.레메조프본 ст.120
AD 1585TyumenOn July 29 Voevodas Sukin, Myasnoy and Chorkov, with 300 men, built the first Siberian church of the Savior at Tyumen (old Chingi) and collected yasak across the Tura and Tobol region.레메조프본 ст.121
AD 1586 – 1587TobolskIn 7095, under Fyodor Ivanovich, Voevoda Chorkov, who had received 500 men, founded Tobolsk at the mouth of the Tobol with a Trinity church and a Savior church.레메조프본 ст.122
AD 1587 – 1589TobolskThe Voevoda of Tobolsk invited Seydyak, Saltan and Karacha to a banquet; though they suspected poison he offered them cups, then gave a signal, attacked and captured them.레메조프본 ст.123–125
AD 1588MoscowOn September 10 Chorkov sent Seydyak, Saltan and Karacha to Moscow; the tsar had them baptized and gave them estates and provisions.레메조프본 ст.126
AD 1590TobolskOn July 28 Kuchum gathered his whole army to attack Tobolsk, but turned back out of fear and only raided the villages of Kaurdak and Salin.레메조프본 ст.127
AD 1591Chilikul lake (Ishim)Voevoda Marsalsky of Tobolsk set out on July 8 and on August 1 attacked Kuchum at Lake Chirikul on the Ishim; he captured Kuchum's son and two wives.레메조프본 ст.128
AD 1591 – 1597Ishim / Nor-Ishim upperKuchum hid in the forests and lakes upstream of the Ishim near the Kalmyk border, harassed the Tara area, and roamed until 7105.레메조프본 ст.129
AD 1598TaraVoevoda Marsalsky of Tara set out on May 9 by order of Boris Godunov, attacked Kuchum's men, captured three sons, two daughters and six wives, and returned to Tara on August 23.레메조프본 ст.130
AD 1598MoscowKuchum's three sons, two daughters and six wives, sent from Tara and Tobolsk to Moscow, were received by Tsar Boris, who praised the Siberians and gave them gold coins and rewards.레메조프본 ст.131
AD 1598 – 1600Zaisan / Nor-IshimKuchum fled to Lake Zaisan at the upper Irtysh and stole Kalmyk horses; the Kalmyks pursued and beat him on the shore of Lake Kurgalchino, recovering their horses.레메조프본 ст.132
AD 1598 – 1601Nogai landWhen Kuchum fled to the Nogai land, the Nogai, saying he was like his father in his evil deeds, killed him and seized his goods.레메조프본 ст.133
AD 1598 – 1601TobolskWhen Kuchum died, the remaining Tatars of the steppe came to Tobolsk to pay yasak; some were baptized, and 300 murza men were given wages and enrolled in military service.레메조프본 ст.134
AD 1620 – 1621TobolskTsar Mikhail and the patriarch ordered Archbishop Kyprian of Siberia to investigate how Yermak lived and died; the archbishop gathered testimony from Russians and Tatars.레메조프본 ст.114
AD 1636TobolskOn February 16 Patriarch Filaret and Tsar Mikhail ordered Archbishop Nektary of Siberia to hold eternal-memory services for Yermak and the Cossacks who fell, observed by date.레메조프본 ст.135
AD 1649 – 1650TobolskAn envoy of Kalmyk Prince Ablai Taishi came to Tobolsk and asked for Yermak's armor as a gift, also mentioning the armor of Princes Kaidaul and Konda.레메조프본 ст.115
AD 1650 – 1651Ablay's urga (Kalmyk)Ulyan Remezov, a streltsy centurion of Tobolsk, took Yermak's armor as a gift to Ablai's horde and confirmed from Ablai the story of Yermak's grave and body.레메조프본 ст.115–118

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