Fur trade Russia exported raw furs, consisting in most cases of the pelts of martens, beavers, wolves, foxes, squirrels and hares. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Russians began to settle in Siberia, a region rich in many mammal fur species, such as Arctic fox, lynx, sable, sea otter and stoat (ermine). In a search for the prized sea otter pelts, first used in China, and later for the northern fur seal, the Russian Empire expanded into North America, notably Alaska. From the 17th through the second half of the 19th century, Russia was the world's largest supplier of fur. The fur
PC Paintbrush before and since, "Paintbrush" version numbers were recorded with Roman numerals. Along with the release of "Paintbrush", ZSoft, following in the footsteps of "PCPaint"'s Pictor PIC format, the first popular image format for the PC, created the PCX image format. The first version of PC Paintbrush released in 1984 only allowed the use of a limited EGA 16-color palette. PC Paintbrush 3.10 was released in 1985. PC Paintbrush II was released in 1985. Another version was released in 1987 as Microsoft Paintbrush 2.0. PC Paintbrush 1.05 for Microsoft Windows was also released in 1987. PC Paintbrush III was released in