The Caspian Frontier before the Great Game
by
S. Peter Poullada
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
In the mid-eighteenth century the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters...