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For these now-forgotten words the czarist authorities in 1864 sentenced him to hard labor at the Nerchinsk mines and imprisonment in Kadaya, not far from where I was.
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He was even encouraged to hope, after the conclusion in 1689 of the Treaty of Nerchinsk between
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968
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Even China allowed the Cossacks to settle on the banks of the Amur, though the treaty of Nerchinsk required the Russians to withdraw from that basin in 1689.
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Nerchinsk on the 22d August, 1689, and on the 27th the terms of a treaty were agreed upon.
The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen
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He was the interpreter for the treaty signed with Russia at Nerchinsk in 1689, and the author of a Manchu grammar.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Chinese at Nerchinsk (27 Aug., 1689), which destroyed their influence in the region of Amur, and from which they did not recover until the middle of the nineteenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The Russians agreed to the destruction of Fort Albazin, but they were allowed to build another at Nerchinsk.
China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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Very few exiles are now sent to Nerchinsk in comparison with the numbers formerly banished there.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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Many of the present inhabitants are exiles or the descendants of exiles, Nerchinsk having been a place of banishment for political and criminal offenders during the last hundred years.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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On its left bank and two or three miles from its mouth is the town of Nerchinsk with five or six thousand inhabitants.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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