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Index
Cover
Front Matter
Title Page
Publisher Information
Preface & Acknowledgements
Introduction
Landscape Of Extremes
The Humdrum And The Bizarre
Siberia
Chapter One
Bronze-Age Cultures
The Scyths
Turkic And Mongol States
The Khanate Of Sibir
Indigenes Before Russian Colonization
Yermak’s Conquest
Chapter Two
Travel On The Sibirsky Trakt
Beyond The Watershed Of Imagination
Stroganovs, Demidovs And The Industrial Heritage Of Nevyansk
Yekaterinburg: Minerals And Mining
A Walk Through Yekaterinburg
The Romanov Murders And Church-On-Blood
From Voznesenskaya Gorka To The Opera
Chapter Three
From Fortress To Metropolis
Holy Trinity Monastery: Missionaries And Indigenous Colonization
Towards Historical Square And Central Square
Rasputin: The Mystic From Pokrovskoe
Chapter Four
The Kremlin Complex
Banishing The Bell
Siberian Administration
Outside The Kremlin: Decembrists And Dostoevsky
The Lower Town
Abalak And The “Pious Work”
Chapter Five
Khanty-Mansiysk: Boom Town
Berezovo And Salekhard
The Railway Of Death
Chapter Six
Revolution And Civil War
Exploring Omsk
The Baraba Steppe
Chapter Seven
Exploring Siberia’s Seas
The Second Kamchatka Expedition
Nordenskjöld’s Expeditions
Joseph Wiggins And Helen Peel
Nansen And The Drifters
Chapter Eight
Building Russia’s Railway
Novosibirsk: Bridge Over The Ob
Around Novosibirsk
The Mammoths Of Akademgorodok
Chapter Nine
Barnaul And The Altai
Industrial Heritage
Prospekt Lenina: Urban Archaeology
The Altai Republic: Spiritual Landscape
Altai Nationalism
The Katun River And Mount Belukha
Chapter Ten
KHOOMEI: Throat Singing And Cultural Identity
The Tuvans And Their Burial Complexes
The Yenisey River North
Khakassia And The Steppe Cultures
Krasnoyarsk
Yeniseysk: Churches And Fairs
Turukhansk: Saints And Exiles
Chapter Eleven
Foreign Visitors
Central Irkutsk: Monuments, Museums And Monasteries
Remembering The Decembrists
Chapter Twelve
The World’s Largest Freshwater Lake
Irkutsk To Listvyanka
The Circumbaikal Railway
Olkhon Island: Where Spirits And Cultures Meet
Chapter Thirteen
House Of The Dead
The Gulags
Company Town
Further Reading
Selected Bibliography
Online Resources
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