Conquest of Siberia Müller Pallas Paperback Cambridge University Press

Conquest of SiberiaAnd the History of the Transactions, Wars, Commerce, etc. Carried on between Russia and China, from the Earliest Period\nAuthor(s): Gerhard Friedrich Mller, Peter Simon Pallas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108023832, 978-1108023832\nSynopsis\nGerhard Mller [tel] is renowned as the first historian to specialise in the history and culture of Siberia. Born in Westphalia, Mller was invited to teach at the newly founded Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg in 1725. He joined the Second Kamtchatka Expedition to western Siberia in 1735, and on his return spent the remainder of his life publishing works on the history of Siberia. His co-author Peter Simon Pallas [tel] also served on several expeditions to Siberia. This volume, first published in English in 1842, contains the English translation of these authors' detailed description of the Russian colonisation of Siberia and ten.