Haywood, Anthony
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 ‘white hell’ across which exiles shuffled in felt shoes and chains. If in Stalin’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.
Keywords: Russia, Urals, Siberia, Former USSR, Anthrology, Moscow, Russian, vodka, eastern europe, travel, history
- Author(s)
- Haywood, Anthony
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2
- Page amount
- 344 pages
- Category
- Geography, Travel
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781908493378
- Printed ISBN
- 9781904955689