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The Altai Mining District - Johann Hackmann, 1787 & Karl Ledebour, 1826 & Vasily Sapozhnikov, 1897
Translations on Russia's mining empire in the Altai Mountains
Apr 15
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The Caucasian - Mikhail Lermontov, 1841
Translation of an essay on how Russians "went native" in the Caucasus
Apr 2
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March 2024
The Big Cats of Turkestan - Dmitri Logofet, 1909
Translation about the wild cats of the Kopet Dag Mountains in Turkmenistan
Mar 24
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Russia in Asia: Reading & Film List
Annotated bibliography of Russia in Asia - History and Foreign Relations
Mar 14
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The Last of the Zungars - Alexander Geins, 1865
Translation of a reflection on the fate of empires
Mar 4
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February 2024
Russia's Withdrawal From the Ili River Valley in 1881 - Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya, 1882 & Ivan Poklevsky-Kozell, 1885
Translations on Russia's retreat from the Ili Valley, the resettlement of the Ili's population & strategic implications
Feb 18
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The Naryn Fortification - Nikolai Zeland, 1888 & A. Sokolov, 1908
Translations of two reports on Russia's most remote outpost in the Tianshan Mountains
Feb 11
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The Ruins of the Ablaikit Monastery-Fortress - Alexander Geins, 1865
Translation of a report on the ruins of a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in south Siberia
Feb 1
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January 2024
Urumqi - Information from of an Exiled Chinese Official - Archimandrite Palladius, 1872
Translation of an intelligence report on the capital of Chinese Turkestan
Jan 17
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2023 Reading List & Book Review
Review of the Best Books I read in 2023
Jan 4
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December 2023
The Surrender of Imam Shamil and the End of the Caucasus War - Hadji Ali al-Chokh, 1859
Translation of an eye-witness account of the final chapter of Russia's conquest of the Caucasus
Dec 21, 2023
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The Kashgar Heart Stealers - Chokan Valikhanov, 1859
Translation of a Kazakh spy's report on the usual marriage customs of Chinese Turkestan
Dec 6, 2023
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