Nicefor Czernichowski

In 1665, he murdered the voivode of Ilimsk for raping his daughter, and fled to the Amur where he reoccupied the ruins of Albazin and gathered a band of supporters, forming the state of Jaxa.

As he married a woman from Moscow, he initially intended to stay in Muscovy; he swore loyalty to the Tsar and in 1635 he converted to Orthodoxy.

Nicefor subsequently was outlawed; he organized a group of 84 cossacks, including the Orthodox monk Hermogenes, and traveled towards the Amur river bordering China, where he settled at the ruins of Albazin.

In 1675, he was called by the Daur people that had been resettled in Manchuria by the Chinese and wanted to return to join the state of Jaxa again.

This Jaxa state was internationally recognized and was visited by diplomats of France and the Netherlands, like Nicolaes Witsen.