Ivan Petlin

Ivan Petlin (Russian: Иван Петлин), also known by the diminutive form Ivashko or Evashko Petlin (Russian: Ивашко Петлин), was the first Russian to have reached China on an official mission (1618–1619). He was a Siberian Cossack. His expedition may have been the second European expedition to reach China from the west by an overland route (after that of Bento de Góis) since the fall of the Yuan Dynasty.

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