Nikolaevsk, 170, 242, 318–28
Nikolayevsk (Amur) Incident, 265–69
Ninguta, 188
Niuzhka River, 183
Nivkh people, 182, 307–8, 324–25
Nizari Ismailis (Assassins), 40
Nogais, 67, 68
Northeast Passage, 90–93
Northern Society, 144
North Korea, 7–8, 163, 334
Novgorod, 40–41, 64–65
Nurhaci, 199–200, 202–3
Ob River, 71–72
Obshchina, 234, 235
Ode to Liberty (Pushkin), 138
Ogedei Khan, 42
Oikhon Island, 110
Olekma River, 183
Onenko, Svetlana, 305, 306
Onon River, 9–10, 15–16, 43, 44–45, 46, 50–51
Opium War, 236
Oprichnina, 68, 346
Oriental Institute (Vladivostok), 296
Orientalism, 116, 236, 292
Ostrogs, 72, 76
Ōtsu incident, 251
Pallas, Peter Simon, 72, 113, 205
Panchen Lama, 113–14, 116, 117
Paris, Matthew, 40
Paris Exposition (1878), 169–70
Paris Peace Conference (1919), 126
Pashkov, Afanasii, 191
Pavlova, Katerina, 286, 287
Peking, 62, 82, 87, 184, 262–63, 267–68
Penal sentences. See Katorga; Ssylka
Pengcun, General, 207, 208
People’s Will, 292
Père-Lachaise Cemetery (Paris), 321
Pereyra, Thomas, 160
Permafrost, 74, 216, 240
Perry, Matthew, 250
Pestel, Ivan Borisovich, 101–2, 230
Pestel, Pavel Ivanovich, 144, 146, 230
Peter I (the Great), 89–90, 98–99, 136, 159, 166, 205, 233–34
Peter III of Russia, 114
Petersburg, Saint, 93–94
Petrashevsky, Mikhail, 232–33, 238–39
Petropavlovsk, 92, 97, 319
Peyton, John Lewis, 319
Piłsudski, Bronisław, 292
Piłsudski, Jósef, 292
Poaching, 36–38, 303
Pokhabov, Ivan, 111
Poland, 41, 66, 67, 186, 191
Pomeshchiki, 68
Poppe, Nikolay, 127
Poyarkov, Vasily, 76, 179, 181–83
Presniakov, Alexander, 231–32
Pribilof, Gavriil, 96
Pribilof Islands, 97
Promyshlenniki, 75, 76–77, 181, 346
Puccini, Giacomo, 251
Pudovkin, Vsevolod, 127
Pushkin, Alexander, 48–49, 135, 138–39, 143–44, 149
Putatin, Leonid Semyonovich, 174–76
Putiatin, Yevfimy, 320
Putin, Vladimir, 109, 224, 271, 285, 289–90, 333–34
Pu Yi, 8, 197–98
Qing dynasty, 8, 88, 110, 160, 184, 197, 198–99, 203–14
Raevsky, Nikolay, 137–38
Ramayana, 56
Rasputin, Valentin, 99, 115
Red Lanterns Shining, 262–63
Reid, Anna, 114–15
Remi, Georges, 107
Rigden Djapo, 117
Rimsky-Korsakov, Voin, 242
Roerich, Nicholas, 118
Ruban, Nikolay Ivanovich, 294–95, 305
Russian-American Company, 97, 229, 240
Russian conquest of Siberia, 66–78, 98–103, 180–83, 191–93, 237–50, 285–90
Buryats and, 109–12, 118–22
fur trade and, 74–77
Ivan the Great and, 66, 67
Khabarov and, 179, 183–91
Time of Troubles, 70–72
Yakuts and, 75–76, 180–81
Yermak and, 69–70, 225–26
Russian Far East, 19, 183–92, 216, 218–24, 227–54, 257–75, 279–328, 333–34. See also specific destinations
Russian Geographical Society, 238–40, 241, 286
Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences, 92, 101, 113, 240
Russian Orthodox Church, 77–78, 119, 135, 223
Russian Revolution, 120–21
Russia/Soviet Union
Amur River as wellspring of national renewal, 4–5, 231, 243–44
border conflicts. See Sino-Russian border conflicts; Sino-Soviet border conflict
expansionist ambitions of, 61–62, 65–67, 69–71, 74–77, 91–93, 96–98, 179–83, 228–29, 235–44. See also Russian conquest of Siberia
gulag camps, 133–36, 146–55
Mongol invasion of, 19, 61–62, 63–65, 86–87
relations with China. See Sino-Russian relations
source of Amur River, 5–6, 9
Westernizers and the Slavophiles, 233–35
Russification, 119, 120
Russo-Japanese War, 109, 123
Ryazan, 67
Ryleev, Kondraty Feodorovich, 144
Sable, 75–76, 201
Sabsu, General, 209, 210
St. George, 96
St. Nicholas, 96
St. Paul, 91–93, 96
St. Peter, 91–93
St. Petersburg, 87, 99, 247
St. Petersburg News, 142–43
St. Petersburg University, 120
Sakachi-Alyan, 305–6, 314
Sakhalin Island, 102, 240, 241, 242, 302, 333
Salmon runs, 300–301, 302
Samarkand, 63
Samoyed people, 76
Sandwich Islands, 229, 319, 320
Sarychev, Gavril, 229
Sea of Japan, 243, 318–19
Sea of Okhotsk, 71, 76, 91, 182, 228, 241–42, 319
Secret History of the Mongols, 27, 31–32, 33, 34
Selenga, 265–66
Selenge River, 31, 33, 85–86, 111
Semenov, Grigory, 121–22, 125, 126
Semenov, Yuri, 252
Settlement of the Amur, 222, 226, 239, 246–47
Shambhala, 107, 115–18, 129–31
Shelikov, Grigory Ivanovich, 95–98
Shilka River, 44, 46, 57, 165
Shmigirilov, Andrei Petrovich, 300, 301, 302–3, 314
Shternberg, Lev Yakovlevich, 292
Shunzhi Emperor, 184, 204
Siberia, 5, 66, 69–78, 86–88, 98–103, 209–10, 227–54, 279–98. See also Russian conquest of Siberia; and specific destinations
Siberian cranes, 48–51, 52, 55–57
Siberian gulag, 133–36, 146–55
Siberian Intervention, 122, 124
Siberian tigers, 280
Sibir, 71
Sibirsky Vestnik, 171
Siege of Ryazan, 67
Sigismund II of Poland, 67
Sikhote-Alin, 291, 304–5
Silver, 5, 109, 136, 166
Sino-Russian border conflicts, 47, 53, 69, 97–98, 110, 197–204, 242–44, 258, 260–62
Albazino fort and, 207–11
Amur Incident, 265–69
Boxer Rebellion and Blagoveshchensk, 262–68
Chernigovsky and, 192–93
Kangxi Emperor and Qing dynasty, 8, 159, 160, 165, 198, 204–12
Khabarov and, 179, 183–91
Pavlovich and, 183–91
Poyarkov and, 181–83
Stepanov and, 189–91
Treaty of Kyakhta, 87–88, 112
Treaty of Nerchinsk, 3, 47, 159–61, 228, 298, 333
Sino-Russian relations, 10, 47, 58, 110, 270–76
first commercial relations, 86–89, 98–99
Sino-Soviet border conflict
background and border tensions, 162–63, 217, 29
6–98
conflict of 1969, 3–4, 297, 299, 329–31
consequences of 1969, 4, 8–9, 331–34
Skovorodino, 215–16
Slave labor. See Gulag
Slavophiles and Westernizers, 233–35
Smallpox, 204–5
Smutnoye Vremya (Time of Troubles), 70–72
Snelling, John, 112–13
Sofiisk, 315–16
Solon people, 206–7
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 136
Songhua River, 2, 7, 9, 161, 187, 300–301
Sorkan-shira, 27–28
Sources of Amur River, 1, 5–6, 7, 9–10, 44–45
Southern Society, 144
South Korea, 49
Spassky, G. S., 171
Ssylka, 134–35, 346
Stalin, Joseph, 126–27, 220, 222–23, 273–74, 281, 283, 296–97
Stanovoy Mountains, 180, 181, 240, 314
Stepanov, Onufry, 189–91
Stephan, John, 78, 292, 297
Storm over Asia (movie), 127
Strelnikov, Ivan Ivanovich, 330
Sturgeons, 287, 301, 302–4, 322
Subutai, 40, 41–42, 63
Suez Canal, 247
Sungari River, 7, 187
Taiga, 24, 73
Taimen, 29, 51, 55
Taiping Rebellion, 243
Taishas, 118–19
Taiwan, 8, 9, 123, 261–62
Tangut people, 34, 63
Tartar Strait, 242, 323
Tartarus, 40
Tatars, 19, 25–26, 40, 65, 67, 182
Taychiuts, 27–28
Temujin. See Genghis Khan
Tengri, 199
Theosophical Society, 116
Three Rivers Expedition, 35, 36
Three Saints, 96–97
Thubron, Colin, 98
Tibet, 112, 115–18
Timber boom, 279–80
Time of Troubles (Smutnoye Vremya), 70–72
Toghrul, 31, 32–33
Tolbuzin, Alexei, 208–9, 210–11
Tolstoy, Leo, 116
Torey Lakes, 50
Trakt, 136
Transbaikalia, 102, 107, 109, 111–12, 113, 115, 124, 153
Trans-Siberian Railway, 161–62
author’s travels on, 10, 81–82, 85–86, 165, 176, 224–25, 227, 257–58, 279
Chita, 108–9
construction of, 7, 115, 136, 161–62, 227, 253–54
Guide to the Great Siberian Railway, 248
Khrushchev in Mogatoi, 162–63
motivations to build, 248–50
Skovorodino, 215–16
Vladivostok, 161–62
Travels of Marco Polo, The, 43
Treaty of Aigun (1858), 243
Treaty of Kyakhta (1727), 87–88, 112
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689), 3, 47, 159–61, 228, 298, 333
Treskin, Madame, 102
Triapitsyn, Yakov Ivanovich, 322–24
Tributary missions, 200–201
Trubetskoy, Ekaterina Laval, 133–34, 137, 147–52
Trubetskoy, Sergey Petrovich, 6, 133–34, 137, 145–49
Tsagaan Tsar, 15–16
Tsetsen Khan, 111
Tseveenmyadag, Natsagdorjin, 49–50, 56
Tsuda Sanzo, 251
Tsugol, 128–29
Tungusic peoples, 111, 112, 180, 306
Tuul River, 31, 83, 84
Tyr, 317
Uchida, Ryohei, 124
Uighurs, 8, 172
Ukha, 2–3
Ulan Bator, 49–50, 83–84
Ulya River, 181
Ungern-Sternberg, Roman von, 121–22
Union of Salvation, 143–44
Unzhakov, Aleksey, 100
Ushanka, 346
Ussuri Railway, 292
Ussuri River, 299–302, 304
Uvarov, Sergey Semionovich, 231–32, 236
Vereshchagin, Alexander, 269
Verkhne-Blagoveshchensk, 266, 273–74
Vestnik Evropy, 267
Viktor, 224–26
Vladivostok, 161–62, 247, 251–52
Voevoda, 71, 191, 347
Volga River, 65, 68, 71
Volkonskaya, Mariya Raevskaia, 137–39, 147–52
Volkonsky, Sergey, 139–53
Voltaire, 236
Voyage Down the Amoor, A (Collins), 1, 319–20
Wallace, Henry A., 118
Wedding in Birobidzhan (Chagall), 283
Weihaiwei, 261
Westernizers and the Slavophiles, 233–35
White Russians, 2, 122, 216, 220, 322
Whitman, Walt, 313
Wild cranes of Dauria, 48–51, 52, 55–57
Wild ginseng root, 291
Wild Jurchens, 200–204
Witte, Sergey, 115, 253–54
Wood, Alan, 234
World War I, 121–22, 123, 223
World War II, 197–98, 282, 296
Wroclaw, 41
Wu of Jin Emperor, 62–63
Wu Sangui, 204
Xi Jinping, 332
Xinjiang, 8, 125, 212
Yakubovich, Alexander, 146, 147
Yakuts, 75–76, 180–81
Yakutsk, 75–78, 180–81, 183, 185–91
Yasak, 75, 76, 77, 78, 185, 187, 347
Yasyr, 77, 78
Yeltsin, Boris, 176–77
Yenisei River, 71–72, 73
Yermak, 69–70, 225–26
Yervant, 218–19
Yesugei, 25–26, 27, 31
Yesungke, 171, 172
Yishiha, 297, 317
Yomiuri Shimbun, 35
Yongle Emperor, 82
Yusupova, Zinaida, 149
Zaamurtsy, 292–93, 296
Zayayev, Damba Darzha, 113–14
Zeia River, 181, 182, 186, 188, 190, 225, 240, 257, 259, 266
Zhalinda, 218, 268
Zhamtsarano, Tsyben, 120–21, 127, 128
Zhang Xianzhong, 203
Zheng Chenggong (Coxinga), 206
Zinovev, Dimitri Ivanovich, 186, 188–89
Znamensky Convent, 93–95, 133
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