6. Scan the table. The Most Important Periods of y. P. Khabarov’s Biography

Dates

Facts of Biography

about 1603-1910

Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov - Svyatitsky was born in a village of Dmitrievo 60 km. off Veliki Ustug*;

1620

He started his career as a manager for the Stroganovs at the salt works in Solvychegodsk.

1625

To find new lands full of sables and other natural riches, Khabarov sailed from Tobolsk to Mangazeya, located in the Taimyr Peninsula*.

1628-30

He and his brother Nikifor reached the Kheta river (eastern part of Taimyr), spent there about two years, sable-hunting and did not return home empty-handed.

1632-1639

Yerofey reached the Lena River and settled in Ust-Kutsk stockaded town. There he started farming, sable-hunting, and fishing. But he had a conflict with Yakutsk governor Fyodor Golovin who wanted from Khabarov more than 10% of taxes to the state treasury. So he took away 300 poods of Khabarov's grain and his ploughed fields.

1641

Khabarov’s family moved to the Kirenga River and settled in Nikolsk town. There they again ploughed fields, organized salt-working business, built a mill and traded. Soon he became a rich merchant.

1643

Fyodor Golovin reached him again, demanded money and imprisoned for the refusal.

1645

Yerofey Pavlovich was released from prison. He had to start from scratch. But he had heard the information about successful trip of V. Poyarkov to the Amur river and decided to organize his campaign there.

1649

Newly appointed Yakutsk governor Dmitry Frantzbekov agreed to send a detachment of Cossacks and gave credit to state-owned military equipment, weapons, and agricultural implements. Yt also gave his own money at interest to all participants of the campaign. He ordered Khabarov to make Daurian princes to take out Russian citizenship. Khabarov gathered a detachment of 70 hunters. One Tungus trapper showed him the shorter way to the Amur through the Olekma river and and the expedition started.

1650 – 1651

He returned back to Yakutsk, brought maps to Frantzbekov, and gathered another group of 160 Cossacks.

1652

Khabarov’s team built Achansk town closer to the lower reaches of the Amur. There they lived for several months and had to struggle with a thousand of Manchurians. The enemies were defeated and the Russians got their trophies. But it was dangerous to stay far from Yakutsk.

1653

Khabarov returned to the Zeya River and built there Albazin stockaded town.

Meanwhile in Moscow it was decided to form a new Daurian Territorial Okrug. Dmitry Zinoviev was sent to prepare all affairs. After arrival he handed Khabarov a gold piece from the Tzar.

But after a while a few people from Khabarov’s detachment complained that he was very cruel and hid money from the payment to the treasury. Having unlimited power Zinoviev publicly pulled Khabarov by beard and arrested him. So Yerofey Pavlovich was deprived of his rank and property and sent to Moscow to be tried. In Moscow Khabarov wrote a letter to the Tzar, where he described his own merits before Russia. After a year's delay he was acquitted.

1655

Russian Tzar Alexey Mikhailovich met with Yerofey Khabarov, granted him a minor noble rank and ordered to return to Siberia.

1658

He was appointed head of Kirenga settlement.

1667

Vasilisa, the wife of Y. Khabarov died. His two sons Andrey and Maxim had their own families and businesses. So Khabarov decided to leave his huge property to Ust-Kirensky monastery. That year he went to Tobolsk to ask for a new permission to move to the Amur, but was refused.

After 1671

He died at the age of about 70 years old. Yerofey Pavlovich was buried near Ust-Kirensky monastery.