Tobolsk was once Siberia’s capital and remains its most memorable city. Highlights are its handsome kremlin and a charmingly decrepit old town. Tobolsk is off the trans-Siberian mainline but direct overnight trains to both Yekaterinburg and Omsk make stopping here a perfectly viable option when crossing Russia.
An early visitor to the city was Yermak Timofeevich, whose band of Cossack mercenaries sacked the nearby Tatar stronghold of Sibir in 1582. Tobolsk’s original fort was built five years later. Although locals were predominantly Muslim Tatars, Tobolsk became the seat of Siberia’s first bishopric in 1620 as Christianity strove to stamp out incest, wife-renting and spouse-stealing by sexually frustrated Cossacks.
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