Siberia: A Cultural HistoryAndrews UK Limited, 2 maj 2012 - 344 Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their ‘colony' in North Asia, they heard rumours about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless forest and humming steppe between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean was a vast, strange and frightening paradise. It was Siberia. Siberia is a cradle of civilizations, the birthplace of ancient Turkic empires and home to the cultures of indigenes, including peoples whose ancestors migrated to the Americas. It was a promised land to which bonded peasants could flee their cruel masters, yet also a ‘white hell' across which exiles shuffled in felt shoes and chains. If in Stalin’s era Siberia became synonymous with the gulag, today it is a vast region of bustling metropolises and magnificent landscapes, a place where the humdrum, the beautiful and the bizarre ignite the imagination. Tracing the historical contours of Siberia, A. J. Haywood offers a detailed account of the architectural and cultural landmarks of cities such as Irkutsk, Tobolsk, Barnaul and Novosibirsk. |
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Altai Altai Republic Angara Arctic arrived Asia Baraba Barnaul became began Bolsheviks building built Buryats capital Cathedral centre church Cossacks cultural dating Decembrists Dostoevsky early east eastern European Russia exile expedition explorer forest fortress gulags Helen Peel historic indigenes inhabitants Irkutsk Irtysh Ivan journey Khan Khanate Khanty Kirghiz Kolyma Krasnoyarsk Kuchum Lake Baikal landscape late later Lena Listvyanka lived Magadan Mangazeya merchant miles monastery Mongol Mongolia Moscow mountains museum Muzey Nansen Nicholas nineteenth century northern Novosibirsk Omsk Petersburg ploshchad prisoners prospekt Lenina railway Rasputin reached region reindeer river road Romanovs route Russian sailed Salekhard shaman shore Siberia Sibir situated Soviet square Stalin’s steppe stone taiga Tartars Tobolsk town Trakt Trans-Siberian Transbaikal traveller tsar Tungus Turkic Tuva Tuvan Tyumen ulitsa Lenina Urals village western Siberia Wiggins winter wooden Yekaterinburg Yenisey Yeniseysk Yermak