Thirteenth-century European armies dragged supply trains laden with provisions, fodder, and tools behind them. This slowed them down: the supply train set the pace for the entire army. Covering 40…
In 1395, the invincible commander Tamerlane set out on a campaign against Rus’. This could have ended disastrously for Rus’ as a whole and for each and every one of…
August 1227. Somewhere in his headquarters on the banks of the Yellow River, a man is dying—a man whose name had sent tremors across half the world, from China to…
The more you read about Batu Khan’s invasion, the more one peculiarity stands out—one that, for some reason, is rarely discussed openly… Russian cities were literally littered with bodies after…
Before the conquest of Constantinople, Ottoman sultans were considered first among equals; they shared a nomadic culture with their subjects and ruled the empire from horseback. Even though they already…
When Genghis Khan’s Mongols first ventured beyond their borders, they turned all of Central Asia upside down. The local tribes that survived and refused to submit were forced to flee.…
They emerged from the Altai Mountains with hammers in hand—and within half a century, they held half the known world in their grasp. This is no legend. This is the…
When we talk about Ukrainian culture, we immediately think of the vyshyvanka, lard, the bandura, and the “mova.” Meanwhile, this ethnic group, which considers itself one of the purest Slavic…
The Huns Between the Altai and the Aral SeaWhile the memory of the Huns in Europe is preserved through numerous and vivid accounts by Greek and Latin authors, there is…
Geographical features and clearly defined borders have turned the Middle Yenisei Valley into a unique “ethnogenetic cauldron.” It should be added that the mountain ranges surrounding the Minusinsk Basin created…
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