 | Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771 Subjects: Kalmyks -- History -- 17th century; Kalmyks -- History -- 18th century; Nomads -- Soviet Union -- History; Nomads -- Asia Central -- History; 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... Michael Khodarkovsky is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. He is coeditor of Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia , also from Cornell, and author of Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 . |
