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

by Michael Khodarkovsky

Book Overview

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 on an unparalleled body of Russian and Turkish sources--including chronicles, epics, travelogues, and previously unstudied Ottoman archival materials--Michael Khodarkovsky offers a fresh interpretation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473403
• ISBN13: 9780801473401
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"