Tobolsk
Proper noun
Meaning
Tobolsk
A city in Tyumen Oblast, Russia
Examples
At Tobolsk, Bering took on more men to help the party through the more difficult journey ahead.
Bering and a small advance party left Tobolsk in later February, stopping at Irkutsk to pick up gifts for the native tribes they would later encounter; it arrived at Yakustsk in August 1734.
In September 1907 Rasputin had to appear for the Ecclesiastical court of Tobolsk, accused of being a Khlyst.
The main grouping, now under Chirikov's command left Tobolsk in May 1734, but had a more difficult trek and one which required harsh discipline be imposed to prevent desertions.
In Tobolsk, the members received food and clothes from the Decembrist women, as well as several copies of the New Testament with a ten-ruble banknote inside each copy.
In 1908 Theofan traveled to Siberia and examined all the documents from the Tobolsk inquiry, but failed to find anything of interest.