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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
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The Caucasian - Mikhail Lermontov, 1841
Translation of an essay on how Russians "went native" in the Caucasus
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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
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Russia in Asia: Reading & Film List
Annotated bibliography of Russia in Asia - History and Foreign Relations
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The Last of the Zungars - Alexander Geins, 1865
Translation of a reflection on the fate of empires
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2023 Reading List & Book Review
Review of the Best Books I read in 2023
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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
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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
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