Which again makes my point , the russians acted the same as the americans and english.
And just because they slaughter them after the tatars (later) doesn't really help.
In order to subjugate the natives and collect yasak (fur tribute), a series of winter outposts (zimovie) and forts (ostrogs) were built at the confluences of major rivers and streams and important portages.To ensure subjugation of the natives, the ostrogs of Yeniseysk (1619) and Krasnoyarsk (1628) were established.[4]
Following the khan's death and the dissolution of any organised Siberian resistance, the Russians advanced first towards Lake Baikal and then the Sea of Okhotsk and the Amur River. However, when they first reached the Chinese border they encountered people that were equipped with artillery pieces and here they halted.
At the hands of people like Vasilii Poyarkov in 1645 and Yerofei Khabarov in 1650 some peoples like the Dauri were slaughtered by the Russians to the extent that it is considered genocide. 8,000 out of a previously 20,000 strong population in Kamchatka remained after being subjected to half a century of Cossacks slaughter.[6] In the 1640s the Yakuts were subjected to slaughters during the Russian advance into their land near the Lena river, and on Kamchatka in the 1690s the Koryak, Kamchadals, and Chukchi were also subjected to slaughters by the Russians
In Kamchatka the Russians savagely crushed the Itelmens uprisings against their rule in 1706, 1731, and 1741
The Russians faced tougher resistance when from 1745-56 they tried to exterminate the gun and bow equipped Koraks until their victory
After the Russian defeat in 1729 at Chukchi hands, the Russian commander Major Pavlutskiy was responsible for the Russian war against the Chukchi and the mass slaughters and enslavement of Chukchi women and children in 1730-31, but his cruelty only made the Chukchis fight more fiercely.[9] A genocide of the Chukchis and Koraks was ordered by Empress Elizabeth in 1742 to totally expel them from their native lands and erase their culture through war.
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Niothor, I wanted to reply to your post, before holidays, but forgot, where I saw it. Now Balthazar inadvertently brought the topic back up.
In your examples above you took the history out of context.
First you need to consider what came before: 300 years of Tatar-Mongol occupation (yoke) of Russian, a period when Russians were almost completely exterminated. Those brutalities were still fresh in memory then (they are still not forgotten now), and, as Cossacks were pushing further East, the people who looked Asian were associated with Tatars or Mongols and brutality was a way of dealing retribution. I do not in any way justify such actions, but that is the mindset of that period.
Contacts with Chukchi existed from before the events you describe. As an aside Chukchi have several words describing human beings, but only they themselves and Russians were gratified with their use of the word "real people". At the same time Chuckchi creation myths say that Russains were created by the gods to serve Chukchi with metals and goods, but somehow forgotten their true purpose and turned on their masters.
Now, let's see what came later - in 1770 the Anadyrsk fortress was laid down, which spurred friendlier relations between Chukchi and Russians, and already in 1775 Angarsk fortress was built, and it served as a centre for trade - big fairs were organised there, where Chukchi and Russians could exchange all kinds of local goods, and the turnover of trade accounted for hundreds of thousands of roubles in the monetary value of those days. In 1848 the fair was moved to Anjusk fortress, and served up to the middle of the 19th century.
