Russian-Turkmen Encounters: The Caspian Frontier before the Great Game

Author:   S. Peter Poullada ,  Claora E. Styron
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9780755602742


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   23 January 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Russian-Turkmen Encounters: The Caspian Frontier before the Great Game


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In the mid-eighteenth century the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters of Captains Tebelev and Kopitovskii (in 1741 and 1745, respectively) with the Turkmen tribes of the Caspian frontier zone. Together they form the basis for Peter Poullada's study of the relationship between the expanding Russian empire and the tribal peoples of Central Asia over a period of more than 200 years. Drawing on Russian archival sources and Persian and Uzbek chronicles, Russian-Turkmen Encounters provides a detailed exploration of the historical and political context of the encounters so vividly described in the two journals. Poullada shows that before the better-known nineteenth-century rivalry between the Russian and British Empires, famously known as the Great Game, Russian merchants, envoys and explorers were engaged in a complex relationship with the various tribal and political groups of Central Asia: Turkmen, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kalmyks and even forces from the Safavid and Afshar shahs who ruled Iran. Russian-Turkmen Encounters provides a valuable new resource that will lead to a deeper understanding of Russia's imperial expansion and its involvement in the geopolitical and commercial rivalries with the major political groups in Central Asia during the early modern period.

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Author:   S. Peter Poullada ,  Claora E. Styron
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9780755602742


ISBN 10:   0755602749
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   23 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I Russian - Turkmen Frontier Encounters: 1558 - 1745 1. The Khan's Letter 3 2. Astrakhan, the Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Long-Distance Caravan Trade 7 3. Turkmen, Uzbeks and Russians 27 4. The Duel for Mangyshlak between Turkmen, Kalmyks and Kazakhs 45 The Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Kalmyks 45 The Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Kazakhs 50 5. Russian - Turkmen Relations in the Era of Peter the Great 55 Nadir Shah Afshar in Central Asia 63 Conclusion 69 Part II The Journals of Captain Tebelev (1741) and Captain Kopytovskii (1745) Preface to the English Translation by Claora E. Styron 73 Introduction by V. Razumovskaia, Translated by Claora E. Styron 79 From the Journal of Captain G. Tebelev, 1741 85 12 June [1741] 85 14 June [1741] 86 June [1741] 88 17 (June) [1741] 91 18 June [1741] 92 19 June [1741] 93 22 June [1741] 96 23 June [1741] 96 25 June [1741] 97 26 June [1741] 99 27 June [1741] 100 28 June [1741] 100 From the Journal of Captain V. Kopytovskii, 1745 103 9 June [1745] 103 13 July [1745] 103 [14 July 1745] 108 14 July [1745] 108 16 July [1745] 119 17 July [1745] 121 19 July [1745] 123 21 July [1745] 128 23 July [1745] 129 25 July [1745] 130 26 July [1745] 131 27 July [1745] 132 11 August [1745] 134

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Overall, this work will be a useful resource for scholars and students of Central Asia alike ... Poullada has achieved something special: combining insights of imperial Russian travelers, their Central Asian interlocutors, Soviet orientalists, and modern scholars all in a single, digestible format. * Iranian Studies *


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S. Peter Poullada is a specialist on the history and cultures of the tribal peoples of Central Asia. He has travelled extensively throughout the former Soviet republics and Western China and lectures frequently on Central Asian carpets and textiles. He graduated in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and completed graduate research in Central Asian history and economics at the University of California, Berkeley

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