Russia and Siberia : The search for a way to China in the early 17th century
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2024

Although Russians actually faced China as a neighbor for the first time at the end of 17 th century, some vague information about it began to penetrate into Russia since the 13 th century, when some Russian princes, at the request of the Mongol khans, made long trips to the capital of the Mongol Empire, the city of Karakorum.It was there, far to the East, that the Russian princes learned that beyond the Mongolian steppes there was a country that, like Russia, had also been conquered by the Mongo