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Black Dragon River

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by Dominic Ziegler


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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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