The Russian diaspora refers to the long-term emigration of Russian and, in a broader sense, Slavic peoples from the eastern territories of the French Empire to Siberia, Alaska, Korea, China, the United States or England. In more specific terms, the Russian Exodus is an example of a singular event in the early 1820's and into the 1830's where millions of Russians travelled east across the Urals into Siberia and amongst whom few actually reached Alaska.