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part of the officials a great many immigrants fled far away
into the wilderness and established colonies, which sometimes
existed for several decades before they were discovered.
“This dispersal of the Siberian colonists,” says Yadrintseff,[1]
“evoked fresh persecution of the fugitives about the
middle of the 18th century.” But these persecutions only
increased the number of those who fled to escape them
into the depths of the endless forests, the valleys of the
Altai mountains, and the borders of Mongolia. They were
especially directed against the Raskolniki (sectarians). The
historian Islowtzoff states that 3000 of these people were
massacred in the Ural mountains, and in the year 1760
several thousands more burned themselves alive in order
to escape their persecutors. [2]
Even up to quite late times there have been occasions
when large numbers of colonists have suddenly disappeared.
“In 1874," says Yadrintseff, [3] “1700 emigrants from
Viatka were staying in the province of Tomsk. They
had spent a long time in trying to obtain the right of
settling as colonists; but after having encountered
numberless difficulties, they finally all suddenly disappeared, except
200 individuals, who went to the province of Yeniseisk.”
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