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Siberia

Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their â€˜colonyâ€™ 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 â€˜white hellâ€™ across which exiles shuffled in felt shoes and chains. If in Stalinâ€™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.

Country	USA
Author	Anthony Haywood
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781908493361
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Signal Books
Manufacturer	Signal Books
NumberOfPages	320
PublicationDate	2012-05-02
Publisher	Signal Books
ReleaseDate	2012-05-02
Studio	Signal Books