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Where Two Worlds Met The Russian State And the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing...
Print Book, English, 2006
Cornell Univ Pr, 2006