The Secrets of the Powder Box
In the Museum of Almaty, amidst a display dedicated to the city in the latter…
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What Does the Torsyq Keep?
In the Museum of Almaty, we stumbled upon an artifact I had never heard of…
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Birch in the Steppe
When I first laid eyes on this artifact in the Central Museum of Kazakhstan, I…
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Three Garments and Half a Million Men
Somewhere in your wardrobe there is a war. The cardigan is named after the seventh…
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Kutuzov in the Harem
Catherine II — “Padishah of the Russians”, a title the Porte conceded in Article Thirteen…
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Bear With Me, This Goes Back a Bit
This is the first instalment of a long story—one we shall keep returning to as…
