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Abbasids, 117–18
Achans, 187–88
Adrianovka, 122
Afghanistan, 63
Aginsk, 127–29
Agriculture, 111, 185, 191, 224, 271–72
Aigun, 264–65
Aisin Gioro, 202–3
Akatui, 150–51
Akhaldayev, Lubsan Zhimba, 113–14
Alaska, 92–93, 96–97
Albazino, 186, 189, 192, 193, 207–11, 216–24
Albazino fort, 192, 193, 207–11, 219–21, 224
Albazino Madonna, 221, 243, 244, 273–74
Albazino Peasant Farming Collective, 224
Aldan River, 181
Aleutian Islands, 92, 96, 228
Alexander I of Russia, 137, 138, 139, 140–42, 144
Alexander II of Russia, 235, 247, 292
Alexander III of Russia, 115, 249–50, 253
Alexandra, Princess, 139, 147–48
Alexeyevna, Natalia, 96
America (steamer), 320
American prairie, 23–24
Amgun River, 242, 317
Amur basin, 10–11, 43
Amur Company, 319
Amur Highway, 227, 285–90
Amuria, 179–93
Amur Incident, 265–69
Amur leopards, 11, 304
Amur River
fish species of, 300–304, 308
naming of, 5, 345
sources of, 1, 5–6, 7, 9–10, 44–45
Amur River Shipping Company, 313–15, 316–18
Amur salmon, 300, 301–2, 322
Amurski Krai, 264, 267
Amur Society, 292, 293
Amur tribes, 1–2, 305–9
Amurtsy, 292, 333
Angara River, 181
Anti-Semitism, 249, 281
Arctic Circle, 22, 134
Arctic Ocean, 71, 297
Arseniev, Vladimir, 271–72, 293–94, 296
Assassins (Nizari Ismailis), 40
Avvakum Petrov, 73
Badmaev, Piotr Aleksandrovich, 115
Baikal, 241
Baikal, Lake, 5, 85–86, 110
Bakunin, Mikhail, 7, 236–37, 238, 243
Balasoglo, Alexander, 238–39, 241
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 71
Baranov, Alexander, 97
Bartholdi, Frédéric, 170
Batjargal, 24–25, 28–29, 36–38, 44–45
Batsuren, 56–57
Battle of Kulikovo Field, 65
Batu Khan, 40, 63–64, 70
Bayara, 24–25, 28–29, 36–38, 44, 45
Begter, 26–27
Beijing, 49, 82, 162. See also Peking
Béla IV of Hungary, 41–42
Belinsky, Vissarion, 235
Bell, Alexander Graham, 170
Bentham, Jeremy, 101
Bentham, Samuel, 101
Bering, Vitus, 90–93, 229
Bering Strait, 96, 306–7
Bestuzhev, Nicholas, 145, 146
Bidzhan River, 281
Birds of Heaven (Matthiessen), 50
Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast of, 279, 280–85
Birobidzhaner Shtern, 282, 283
Biro River, 281
Black Dragon Society, 124–25
Black Ships, 250–51
Blagoveshchensk, 225, 257–70
Blagoveshchensk massacre, 265–69
Blavatsky, Helena, 116–17
Boas, Franz, 306–7
Bogoras, Vladimir, 308
Bolsheviks, 121, 122, 124, 126–27, 281
Bondarenko, Sergey, 273–74
Border conflicts. See Sino-Russian border conflicts; Sino-Soviet border conflict
Border crossings, 10, 58, 81–82, 85, 218
Boreal forests, 73, 74, 304–5
Börte, 30–33
Boxer Protocol (1901), 268
Boxer Rebellion, 262–68
Brianta River, 181
Britain, 40, 122, 235, 236, 239, 261, 332
Buddhism, 112–18, 125, 126, 127–31
Bukhara, 63, 69, 87
Bulichev, Mikhail Vasilievich, 329–31
Burkhan Khaldun, 25, 26, 31–32, 34–35
Buryatia, 107–31
Buryat National Committee (BurNatsKom), 121
Buryats, 52–53, 88, 107–31, 222
Buryat Wars, 110, 112, 115
Butin, Michael, 169–70
Butin Palace (Nerchinsk), 169–72, 175–76
Byambyn, 163–64, 166–67
Cape of Good Hope, 90
Catherine the Great, 72, 77, 98, 100, 114, 136
Chagall, Marc, 283
Chechen Wars, 258
Chekhov, Anton, 102, 260, 279, 321–22
Chernigovsky, Mikhail, 139
Chernigovsky, Nikifor, 192–93
Chiang Kai-shek, 162
Chiledu, 31
China
border conflicts with Russia/Soviet Union. See Sino-Russian border conflicts; Sino-Soviet border conflict
Mongol invasion of, 62–63, 200
relations with Russia. See Sino-Russian relations
source of Amur River, 7, 9
China Eastern Railway, 108–9
Chinese contract workers, 272–73
Chinese Eastern Railway, 161–63
Chinese farms, 271–72
Chinese tea, 88–89
Chita, 5–6, 108–9, 153–55
Choibalsan, Khorloogiin, 53, 58
Church of Our Savior (Irkutsk), 98–99
Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Irkutsk), 99–100
Cochrane, John Dundas, 100–101
Collins, Perry McDonough, 1, 319–21
Columbia River, 302
Communism, 3, 8, 18, 54, 82–83, 127, 162, 216, 273, 284–85, 296–97
Congress of Vienna, 231
Cooper, James Fenimore, 4
Cossacks, 66–78, 188, 198–99
conquests of, 68–78, 165, 179–80, 220, 222–26, 246–47
early history of, 66–71
fur trade and, 74–77, 198
Coxinga (Zheng Chenggong), 206
Cranes, 48–51, 52, 55–57
Crimean War, 235, 319
Crossley, Pamela Kyle, 206
Cultural Revolution, 297, 329–30
Czech Legion, 121
Dadal, 52–53
Dalai Lama, 113–14, 116, 130
Dalrevkom, 295–96
Damansky Island, 330–31, 332
Darhad Depression, 21
Datsan, 112, 114, 115, 345
Dauria, 25, 45–59
Dauria wild cranes, 48–51, 52, 55–57
Daur people, 46–47, 181, 182, 183–91, 206–7, 221
Daursky Nature Reserve, 50
De Castries Bay, 315
Decembrists, the, 145–47, 230, 231
katorga exile, 5–6, 109, 133, 146–47, 150–55
as national heroes, 109, 133–34
wives in exile, 150–54
Decembrist uprising (1825), 6, 133, 145–46, 232
Decorative Arts of the Amur Tribes (Laufer), 308–9
Defense Mapping Agency, U.S., 9–10
Defoe, Daniel, 46, 298
Deforestation, 279–80
Del, 21, 345
Demoiselle cranes, 56
Derzhavin, Gavrila, 95
Destroyer
, 122
Dezhnev, Semyon, 91
Don Cossacks, 67–69
Doroskova, Agrippina Nikolaevska, 220–21, 222, 223
Dorzhiev, Agvan Lobsan, 115–16, 118, 126, 127, 128
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 136, 232–33
Duchers, 182, 187, 190
Dukha people, 22–23
Dzungar people, 110, 160, 212–13
East Asian–Australasian Flyway, 48
Elizabeth of Russia, 114, 135–36, 229
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin), 138–39, 143–44
Evenki, 76, 180–81
Far Eastern Border Guards, 216, 217
Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 46
Federal Security Service (FSB), 174, 216, 217
Fengtangchang, 293
Figes, Orlando, 140
Fischer, Johann Eberhard, 189–90
Fishskin Tatars, 182, 187
Fish species of Amur River, 300–304, 308
Forbidden City, 49, 197, 267–68, 293
Fort Achansk, 187–88
Fowke, Gerard, 307–8
France, 40, 122, 140, 239
Franzbekov, Dmitry, 183, 185–86
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 42
Fur trade, 74–77, 96, 198, 201, 228–29
Gala, 19, 21–23, 28–29, 35–36, 38, 44, 45, 48, 55, 56, 58
Galdan Boshugtu Khan, 110, 212–13
Gankhuyag (“Ganaa”), 54–55
Gavrilov, Aleksandr, 240–41
Genghis Khan (Temujin), 171–72, 225–26
birthplace claims, 53, 109
Börte and, 30–33
early life of, 25–28
hunting needs, 38, 39
impact of, 17–18, 85
invasions of, 62–63
resting place of, 34–35
Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue, 84–85
George III of the United Kingdom, 101, 142
Ger, 19, 111, 345
Gerbillon, Jean-François, 160
Gibbon, Edward, 41
Ginseng, 201, 291
Gobi Desert, 31, 83
Gold, 88, 102, 166
Golden Horde, 65, 66, 67, 70, 225
Golobova, Juliana, 299–302
Golovin, Pyotr, 75, 76, 78, 181
Goose Lake, 113, 114
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 283
Great Britain, 40, 122, 235, 236, 239, 261, 332
Great Northern Expedition, 91–93
Great Purge, 220, 222–23
Great Siberian Expedition, 240
Great Siberian Post Road, 136
Great Siberian Railroad. See Trans-Siberian Railway
Great White Brotherhood, 116–17
Gregory IX, Pope, 42
Gribskii, Konstantin, 265, 266, 267, 268–69
Grigoriev, Vasily, 237
Grigory “Grisha,” 287–88, 290
Guide to the Great Siberian Railway, 248
Guigudar, 186–87
Gulag, 133–36, 146–55
Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), 136
Gulf of Finland, 228
Gulf of Tartary, 241, 315
Hainan, 261
Han Chinese, 8, 9, 83, 291–92
Harbin, 2–3, 161–62
Harvey, Graham, 23–24
Hawaii, 97. See also Sandwich Islands
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 233
Heihe, 258, 259–61, 274–76
Henry II (the Pious), 41
Herzen, Alexander, 7, 140, 235, 236–37, 243
Himmler, Heinrich, 117
History of the World Conqueror (Juvaini), 15
Hoelun, 25–28, 31
Hong Kong, 8–9, 261, 332
Hong Taiji, 199, 203–4
Horses, of Mongolia, 28–30
House of the Dead (Dostoevsky), 136, 232–33
Hugo, Victor, 236
Hulunbuir, 47
Hulun Jurchens, 200
Hungary, Mongol invasion of, 41–42
Ignatiev, Nikolay, 250
Ikh Turag, 34
Industrialization, 249
Ingoda River, 5–7, 7, 46, 108, 164–65
Innocent, Saint, 93–94
Irkutsk, 81–82, 86–87, 88–89, 91, 93–94, 98–103, 149–50, 258
Ishida, Toramatsu, 322–23
Ishikawa, Masanori, 323
Ivan III (the Great), 65, 66, 67
Ivan IV (the Terrible), 65–66, 68–69
Izba, 111, 275, 346
Jakobi, Ivan, 101
Japan, 122–26, 250–51, 261–62, 289, 322–23
Japanese car trade, in Russian Far East, 288–90
Jebe, 63
Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 306–9
Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Birobidzhan, 280–85
Jianzhou Jurchens, 200
Jochelson, Vladimir, 308
Jochi, 33, 40
Jurchen people, 199–204, 293–95
Juvaini, 15, 39
Kaluga sturgeons, 287, 301, 302–4, 322
Kamchadals, 78
Kamchatka Peninsula, 77, 78, 86, 92, 96, 228
Kamchatka River, 91
Kangxi Emperor, 159, 160, 165, 197, 198–99, 204–13
Karakorum, 86–87
Kasar, 26
Katorga, 134–36, 166, 232–33, 346
the Decembrists, 5–6, 133–34, 146–47, 150–55, 230, 231
Katorzhyni, 67–68
Kazak, 67
Kazanovo, 164–65
Khabarov, Yerofei Pavlovich, 179, 183–91
Khabarovsk, 252, 290–95, 313–14
Khabarovsk Museum of Regional Studies, 293, 294–95, 298
Khadag, 15, 346
Khalkha Mongols, 53, 109, 110, 112, 125
Khanate of Kazan, 66
Khanate of Sibir, 71, 185
Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area, 36–38
Kherlen River, 15, 16, 23, 35, 58
Khitan people, 46–47, 199
Khrushchev, Nikita, 162–63, 164, 274, 296–97
Kiev, 61–62, 64, 144
Kim Jong Il, 7–8, 163
Kim Jong Un, 334
Kizi, Lake, 315
K-M Kholkoz, 164
Kodiak Island, 96–97
Kofman, Boris, 284–85
Kolchak, Alexander, 322
Kolzo, Ivan, 68–69
Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia, 144–45
Korean Airlines Flight 007, 217
Korean Empire, and Japan, 123, 261
Koreans, in Russian Far East, 272, 291
Kropotkin, Peter, 238, 246
Kuchum Khan, 69–70
Kunst & Albers, 269, 290
Kuropatkin, Alexei Nikolaevich, 119, 120
Kyakhta, 88–89, 165, 228, 230
Lamaist Buddhism, 112, 118
Lancaster, Joseph, 101
Langtan, General, 207, 210–11
Lansdell, Henry, 315–16
Laufer, Berthold, 305–9
Laval, Ekaterina, 133–34, 137, 147–52
Lavkai of Albazin, 184
Lebedva-Kiyashko, Nina, 323–24
Leder, Roman, 283–84
Legnica, 41
Leibniz, Gottfried, 90
Lena River, 71–72, 75, 180, 183
Lenin, Vladimir, 126, 281, 282
Leontiev, Maxim, 209
Leparsky, Stanislav, 153–54
Liaodong Peninsula, 202–3, 262, 263
Liao dynasty, 47
Linnaeus, 101
Li Zicheng, 203–4
Lobanov-Rostovsky, Fedor, 186, 189
Lomonosov, Mikhail, 137, 229
Lopatkin, Ivan, 293, 296
Loti, Pierre, 251
Louis XIV of France, 205
Lower Amur tribes, 307–9
Macartney, George, 236
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 75
Madama Butterfly (Puccini), 251
Man, John, 26–27, 64
Mancall, Mark, 205
Manchu people, 5, 110, 160, 165–66, 184, 198–99, 203, 227–28, 262
Manchuria, 8–9, 123, 165–66, 197–98
Mao Zedong, 3, 8, 162, 163, 274, 296, 297, 329–30
Marco Polo, 34, 43
Maslenitsa, 101, 149
Matryoshka, 276
Matthiessen, Peter, 49, 50
Medvedev, Dmitry, 271
Meiji (the Great), 251
Meiji Restoration, 122–23
Menshikov, Alexander Danilovich, 135
Merciless, 122
Merkits, 31–33
Middendorff, Alexander von, 240
Mikhail, 264–66
Ming dynasty, 200–201, 205–6
Mogatoi, 162–63
Mongke Temur, 202
Mongol hunts, 38–39
Mongolia, 9, 17–59, 81–86, 110, 112, 125–31, 212
Mongolian grasslands, 23–24, 30
Mongolian horses, 28–30
Mongolian script, 171–72
Mongol invasion of China, 62–63, 200
Mongol invasion of Europe, 39–42
Mongol invasion of Russia, 19, 61–62, 63–65, 86–87
Mongonmorit, 15–17, 19–20, 21
Morgan, 21–23, 29, 35–36, 44
Moscow, 65, 70–72
Moskvitin, Ivan, 71, 181, 182
Muhammad II of Khwarezm, 63
Müller, Gerhard Friedrich, 91
Muraviev, Nikolay (later Count Muraviev-Amursky), 5, 242–44, 315
Albazino and, 222, 225
Amur annexation, 220, 242–44, 246, 273, 318
appointment as governor-elect of Eastern Siberia, 238–39
background of, 238
death of, 321
memorials to, 252, 273, 294
Nevelskoi and, 241, 242, 318
Petropavlovsk and, 319
Naming of Amur River, 5, 345
Nanai people, 182, 225, 305–6
Nansen, Fridtjof, 72
Napoleon Bonaparte, 140
Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will), 292
Nercha River, 167
Nerchinsk, 147–48, 150–53, 159–61, 165–77, 208–9
Nerchinsk, Treaty of (1689), 3, 47, 159–61, 228, 298, 333
Nerchinsk prison, 167–68, 173–76
Nesselrode, Karl, 135, 146, 147, 241, 318
Nevelskoi, Gennady, 241–42, 252, 318
Never River, 216
Nibuchu. See Nerchinsk
Nicholas I of Russia, 4, 144–48, 149, 152–53, 230–34, 238
the Decembrists and, 5–6, 133, 145–46, 232
Nicholas II of Russia, 116, 118, 121, 122, 135
Eastern journey of, 250–52, 254
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