MAP 23.2 Expansion of Russia in Asia, 1865–1895

Russian administrators and military men continued enlarging Russia, bringing in Asians of many different ethnicities, ways of life, and religions. Land-hungry peasants in western Russia followed the path of expansion into Siberia and Muslim territories to the south. In some cases they drove native peoples from their lands, but in others they settled less-populated frontier areas. As in all cases of imperial expansion, local peoples resisted any expropriation of their livelihoods, while the central government tried various policies for integration.