Pyotr Beketov

Pyotr Beketov (Russian: Пётр Иванович Бекетов, c. 1600 – c. 1661) was a

Cossack explorer of Siberia and founder of various fortified settlements in the region, which later developed into modern cities such as Yakutsk, Chita, and Nerchinsk

.

Beketov started his military service as a guardsman (

Buryatia

and founded the first Russian settlement, Rybinsky Ostrog.

Beketov was sent to the

Aldan River and further down the Lena, to found new fortresses, and to collect taxes from the locals.^[1]

In 1640 he transported collected taxes to Moscow where at his arrival he was appointed Strelets and Cossack commander and in 1641 Beketov returned to Enisei Ostrog as the head of the fortress.

In 1652 he launched the second tax-collecting voyage to Buryatia, and in 1653 Beketov's cossacks founded a fortress, Irgensky Ostrog, and on the bank of the

Amur River. Beketov returned to Tobolsk in 1661 where he met Protopope Avvakum

and probably died in the same year.

References

^ ^a ^b Lantzeff, George V., and Richard A. Pierce (1973). Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750. Montreal: McGill-Queen's U.P.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

General References

Pyotr Beketov at www.oldchita.org (The history of Chita) (in Russian)

[Lantzeff-1] Lantzeff, George V., and Richard A. Pierce (1973). Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750. Montreal: McGill-Queen's U.P.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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