Крестьянство Енисейской губернии / The peasantry of Yenisei Province before the Revolution

Дореволюционная Россия в фотографиях Крестьянство Енисейской губернии Pre-revolutionary Russia in photogaphs The peasantry of Yenisei Province Music:. Oh! you broad Steppe Here I present a fascinating album of photographs showing the lives of the peasants in Yenisei Province before the Revolution of 1917.. During the centuries under the Russian Empire, Siberia was chiefly developed on agricultural lines and a place of exile as it was considered far away from any foreign country. The Yenisei is one of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean. Russians first reached the upper Yenisei in 1605, travelling from the Ob River, up the Ket River, portaging and then down the Yenisei as far as the Sym River. In 1856, the East Siberian Department was established . The administrative-territorial division of the Yenisei province remained largely unchanged until October 1917 . Since 1898, the districts of the Yenisei province became known as uyezds . The Province occupied the western part of Eastern Siberia and stretched from the southern to northern limits of the Russian Empire. From the early 19th century, the pace of settlement of the Yenisei region had increased with the State Treasury periodically allowing state peasants to move to Siberia. In the first half of the XIX century saw a sharp increase in the number of exiles, especially after the governor of the Yenisei province, A.P. Stepanov, submitted the idea of ​​creating state settlements from exiles...... Today Yenisei Province is known as Krasnoyarkask Krai...