Birch in the Steppe
When I first laid eyes on this artifact in the Central Museum of Kazakhstan, I…
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Culture on the Edge of Agglutination
A trip to the Atatürk Cultural Centre (AKM) at Taksim is invariably a bit of…
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Etna and Hallowe’en
Our journey to Erzurum and Kars has come to an end and given way to…
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The Grandmother of the Third Army
In the summer of 1876 the English language acquired a new insult. It had been…
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The Poet Was Not Impressed
Back to Erzurum, then, as Pushkin saw it. Or rather, as he failed to. Begin…
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A Boy’s Own Summer at Erzurum
Having stepped aside for Kutuzov’s excursion from our survey of the Russo-Turkish wars — from…
