Gantimur ( mn, Гүн Төмөр; ; russian: Гантимур) was the ancestor of Russian princely
Gantimurov family
The House of GantimurovAlternate spellings are Gantimourov(a), Gantimouroff, Gan-Timur and Gan-Timour. (russian: Гантимуровы) is a Russian princely family of evenks.
History
They have descended from the Manchu chieftain Ganti ...
.
The details of his early life are unknown but it is known that in 1655 he participated with the
Qing
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
army in the siege against the Russian fort of
Kumarsk. During 1667 Gantimur, along with his relatives and forty elders of his tribe, went over to the Russians to seek an alliance. An immediate attempt made by the Qing authorities to secure his return by force was unsuccessful, and special envoys sent by order of the Kangxi Emperor were also unsuccessful persuading Gantimur to come back to the side of the Qing.
In 1684, Gantimur was baptized as a Christian into the Russian Orthodox Church and entered the ranks of the Russian nobility with the title and name of Prince Peter Gantimurov.
The government in Moscow put him in charge of some of the Tungus and Mongol tribes of the newly acquired
Transbaikal
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykalye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia.
The steppe and ...
region. For permanent residence he chose
Nerchinsk
Nerchinsk ( rus, Не́рчинск; bua, Нэршүү, ''Nershüü''; mn, Нэрчүү, ''Nerchüü''; mnc, m=, v=Nibcu, a=Nibqu; zh, t=涅尔琴斯克（尼布楚）, p=Niè'ěrqínsīkè (Níbùchǔ)) is a town and the administrative ce ...
. In 1686, he was summoned to Moscow, but died on the way to
Narym and was buried in Narym.
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