Perm

Great Perm was the land of the Komi peoples on the upper Kama, centred on Cherdyn. In 1337 local princes ruled under loose Novgorodian claims to fur tribute, while the people kept their ancestral beliefs.

In 1451 Vasily II of Moscow appointed Mikhail Yermolayevich prince of Great Perm. Bishop Pitirim was killed by raiding Mansi in 1455, and Moscow took over Novgorod's claims in 1471. Moscow absorbed the principality in 1505; the name Great Perm ceased to be official when Peter the Great created Siberia Governorate in 1708.