Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word YASAK
YASAK
Definitions of YASAK
- (historical) An in-kind tribute in Imperial Russia exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia, usually in fur.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using YASAK in a Sentence
- The first mention of him in the historical records comes from around 1682, when he was collecting Yasak on the Aldan River and one of the Uda rivers.
- The Russians enforced taxation of natives through collection of yasak in sable furs and regularly trespassed their self-assumed rights; the natives evaded extortion by resettling to remote areas.
- A largely symbolic form of yasak continued to be levied from the nomadic peoples of Eastern Siberia (Yakuts, Evenks, Chukchi) until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- She is known for her performance on Yasak Elma as Ender, and other TV series, including Süper Baba, Gülbeyaz, Bodrum Masalı.
- In 1610, Taybokhta Vonin, on his request, was relieved of yasak, and ordered to serve the sovereign and live in Narym ostrog with an annual salary of 3 rubles, 4 chetveriks of flour, a chetverik of each groats and kama, and a pood of salt.
- The Aleuts were unhappy with the depredations of Promyshlenniks (Russian fur workers) who followed on the heels of the explorers, and who were brutal and avaricious and pursued a policy of forcing natives to work and pay the Yasak (tax paid in furs) by taking their families hostage.
- For example, in 1631 the Yakuts besieged the Dobrynsky stockaded town at the mouth of the Vilyuy River, and in 1632 a thousand Yakut mounted warriors, led by the sons of Tygyn, wrested the looted yasak from the invaders from the group of the Moscow collector Ivashka Galkin.
- After several hard battles with the Buryats, the Cossacks still managed to impose yasak on a number of remote western Buryat uluses.
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