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Letopis' Sibirskaia (Siberian chronicle) details the conquest of Siberia by the Russians, beginning in the late 16th century under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The author, G. I. Spasskii, created the first Siberian magazine early in the 19th century and was a well-known popularizer of Siberian history. This work is a chronological account of the gradual but steady eastward movement of the Cossacks into the lands of the former Golden Horde, the patrimony of the Mongol khans who ruled parts of Russia from the early 13th century until the late 15th ...