Fur trade the "yasak" (or iasak) tax on natives and the 10% "Sovereign Tithing Tax" imposed on both the catch and sale of fur pelts. Fur was in great demand in Western Europe, especially sable and marten, since European forest resources had been over-hunted and furs had become extremely scarce. Fur trading allowed Russia to purchase from Europe goods that it lacked, like lead, tin, precious metals, textiles, firearms, and sulphur. Russia also traded furs with Ottoman Turkey and other countries in the Middle East in exchange for silk, textiles, spices, and dried fruit. The high prices that sable, black fox, and
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