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Ivan Petlin

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17th-century Russian explorer

Historical FiguresLived 1600 to 1700 · aged 100
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Ivan Petlin, also known by the diminutive form Ivashko or Evashko Petlin, was the first Russian to have reached China on an official mission (1618-1619). He was a Siberian Cossack.

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Around the time of Petlin's travel, Europeans were aware that the country of Kitaisk, with the capital in Combalich, was adjacent to southern Siberia, and maybe even accessible via the Ob River, but did not necessarily identify it either with Marco Polo's Cataia (capital, Cambalu) or with China (capital, Paquin). (Map by Jodocus Hondius, 1610)Around the time of Petlin's travel, Europeans were aware that the country of Kitaisk, with the capital in Combalich, was adjacent to southern Siberia, and maybe even accessible via the Ob River, but did not necessarily identify it either with Marco Polo's Cataia (capital, Cambalu) or with China (capital, Paquin). (Map by Jodocus Hondius, 1610)

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Ivan Petlin, also known by the diminutive form Ivashko or Evashko Petlin, was the first Russian to have reached China on an official mission (1618-1619). He was a Siberian Cossack. His expedition may have been the second European expedition to reach China from the west by an overland route since the fall of the Yuan Dynasty.

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Lived 1600 to 1700 · aged 100
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