Travels in Siberia (83 page)

Milescu, Nicolae

military; civil war; Lend-Lease program; Mongols

Mill, John Stuart

mining

Mirny

missionaries

Missoula, Montana

Molchanov, Viktorin

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Mongolia

Mongols; influence on Russia; warfare

Monomakh, Vladimir

Montana

Montesquieu

moon

morkovnik

Moscow; Mongol period

Moscow University

mosquitoes; prevention

movies

Mowat, Farley;
Never Cry Wolf (Ne Kri Volki
);
The Siberians

Müller, Gerhard Friedrich;
Description of Voyages

Muraviev, Nikolai

Muraviev-Amurski, Governor-General

Muraviev-Apostol, Sergei

Muscovy

Museum of the Arctic and the Antarctic

museums

mushrooms

music; prison camp

Muslims; Hanefite

Myshkin, Hypolite

Nabokov, Vladimir

Nagai

Nakhodka

names, Russian

Napoleon Bonaparte; invasion of Russia

Napoleonic Wars

Napoleon III

National Geographic

NATO

natural gas

natural resources

Nazarov, Aleksandr

Nazarov, Vladimir

Nazism

Neryungri

Nestorian Christianity

Neva River

Nevsky, Alexander

New York City; ballet; Russian tourists in; September 11 attacks

New Yorker, The

New York Evening Post

New York Herald, The

New York Times, The

Nicholas I, Tsar; Decembrists and

Nicholas II, Tsar; grave of; murder of

nickel

nightmares

Nihilists

Nikishov, Ivan Fedorovich

Nikola

Nikolayevsk

Nikon

Nizhneudinsk

NKVD

nobility

Nome

Norilskl

North American Plate

Northeast Passage

Northern Society

North Korea

North Pole

Norwalk Reflector-Herald

Norway

no-see-ums

Novgorod

Novo Chaplino

Novodevichy Monastery

Novosibirsk

Novosiltsov, Alexei

nuclear weapons

Nureyev, Rudolf

Obolensky, Yevgenii

Ob River

Obruchev, V. A.;
My Travels Through Siberia

October
(movie)

October Manifesto (1905)

October Revolution,
see
Russian Revolution (1917)

Ohio

oil

Oimyakon

Oka River

Okhotsk

Okhotsky Plate

Okladnikov, A. P.

Olchan River

Old Believers

Olga

Olga Bay

Omsk

omul’

Orkhon

Orthodox Church; Old Believers

Ottoman Empire

Ovid

Pacific Ocean

paleontology

Pallas, Peter Simon

Pashkov, Athanasius

passports

Pasternak, Boris:
Safe Conduct

Paul, Tsar

peddlers

Peking

Pelym

penal colony settlers

Penttila, Eric

People of the Forest

People’s Revolutionary Army

People’s Will movement

Pereyaslavl

Perm

permafrost zone; thawing

Permian extinction

Perovsky, Sophie

Persians

Pestel, Ivan Borisovich

Pestel, Pavel

Peterhof

Peter II, Tsar

Peter the Great, Tsar

Peter III, Tsar

Petrov, Anatoly Firsovich

Philip II, King of France

photography

pigs

Pikalevo

Pinega River

plants

Plekhanov, Georgi

Pokrovskoye

Poland

Politburo

pollution

Polo, Marco

population; Mongols and; recent decline

postcards

Posyolok Dorozhnikov

power plants

Powers, Francis Gary

pozhe

prehistoric times

Prigarin, Sergei

Primorskii Region

prisons; conditions; death toll; Decembrists in; escapes; gulag; insects; Kennan on;
lagers

Provideniya

Pruss

Przhevalskii, N. M.

puffins

Pushkin, Alexander; “Vystrel”

Putin, Vladimir; oil interests

Rabbits

radicals, violent

radio, talk

Radischchev, Aleksandr;
A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

railroads; BAM; Trans-Siberian

Rasputin, Grigory

Rasputin, Valentin;
Siberia, Siberia

ravens

Razdolnaya River

Reagan, Ronald

Red Army

Reed, John; death of;
Ten Days That Shook the World
;
The War in Eastern Europe

reforms; Decembrists and

reindeer

religion; Soviet campaign against;
see also
churches;
specific religions

Remezov, Semyon;
Remezov Chronicle

revolutionaries; Decembrists

Revolution of 1905

Rhode Island

Richard I, King of England

Risk (game)

rivers;
see also specific rivers

roads,
see
buses; car travel;
specific roads

Romanovs

Rome

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rouse, Henry C.

Rozen, Andrei

rubles

Ribruquis, William de

Rubtsovsk

Rudolf II, Emperor of Hungary

Russia (post-Soviet Union); oil and gas; population decline

Russia (pre-Soviet Union); acquisition of Siberia; -Chinese trade; civil war; Decembrists and; expansionism; Mongol period; Napoleonic invasion of; World War I;
see also
tsarism

Russia-love

Russian American Company

Russian-American Telegraph Company

Russian Revolution (1917)

Russo-Japanese War

Rutskoi, Vice President

Ryazan

Ryleev, Konrad

sable

St. Petersburg

Sakhalin Island

Sakhalin I

Sakhalin II

Sakha Republic

salmon

salt

Samarkand

sanitary arrangements

Sarai

Sarmatians

satellite phone

satellites; collision of

Saudi Arabia

Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam

Schiltberger, Johann

Scott, Walter

Scythians

seals

Sea of Japan

Sea of Okhotsk

sea travel; lost boats; slave ships

Secret History of the Mongols, The

Sekti

Selenga River

Selenginsk

Semeyonov, Grigory

September 11 attacks

serfdom

Serov, Victor

Severnaya Dvina River

Severobaikalsk

sex trafficking

Shalamov, Varlam

Shaybani

Shaybanids

Shektman, Boris

Sheldon, Robert

Sheremetyevo Airport

Shibaev, Sergei

Shilka River

Shishmaref

shopping malls

Shparo, Dmitri

Shushenskoye

Siberia, first known references to

Siberian Traps

Sibir’

Sibir, Khan of

Sibirskii Trakt,
see
Trakt

Sigismund, King of Hungary

Sikhote-Alin Mountains

silk

silver

Simbirsk

size

skiing

Skovorodino

slang

slave ships

Slobodkina, Esphyr

smallpox

smells

Smith, Adam

Smith, Captain John

Smolensk

snow

snowmobiles

socialism

“social Siberia”

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr;
The Gulag Archipelago

Sonam Gyatso

Sophia Paleologue

Southern Society

Soviet Union; Afghan War; Cold War; creation of; exiles; fall of; gulag conditions; Lend-Lease program and; Siberia comes under control of; World War II

space program

Spencer, Herbert

sports

Sputnik

Stalin, Joseph; death of; exile in Siberia; government; Great Terror; legacy of; World War II and

Stalingrad, Battle of

Stalker, Enoch

stars

steam bath

Steinberg, Saul

Steller, George;
Journal of a Voyage with Bering 1741–1742
;
Steller’s History of Kamchatka

Stepniak

steppes; barbarians; Mongols

Stimpfle, Jim

Stolypin, Pyotr

Struchkov, Andrei

Sukhona River

summer

superstitions

Supreme Soviet

Surikov, Vasily

Susanin, Ivan

Suzdal

Sverdlov, Yakov M.

Sverdlovsk

swamps

Sweden

Switzerland

Taibugids

taiga

Taishnet

talk radio

Tamerlane

Tanga

Taoism

Tarkan-Kala

Tatars

taxes

taxis

tea; trade

tectonics

telegraph

telephone; satellite

television

Temuchin,
see
Genghis Khan

tents,
see
camping and tents

Tereshkova, Valentina

terminology, Siberian

Terror,
see
Great Terror

terrorism; September 11 attacks

Teutonic Knights

Theodore, Tsar

Tibetan Buddhism

ticks

tigers

timber

Time of Troubles

time zones

Timofeyevich, Yermak

tin

Tkachenko, Anatoly

Tobol River

Tobolsk

Tobora

toggling harpoon point

Tokhtamysh, Khan

Tolstoy, Leo; on Decembrists; Kennan and;
Resurrection
;
War and Peace

Tomsk

Topolinoe

Topolinskaya Highway

Topo River

tourism

Tracy, Destutt de

trade; Chinese-Russian; fur; tea

Trakt

Trans-Siberian Railway; civil war and; Soviet-era

trash

travel; air; American travelers in Russia; British travelers in Russia; bus; car; to China; dangers of; exploration; ferry; helicopter; literature; metro; post-Revolution; preparations; sea; September 11 attacks and; snowmobile; Trakt; Trans-Siberian Railway;
vezdekhots

Treaty of Nerchinsk

Trediakovskii, V. K.

Trepov, F. F.

Tretyakov Gallery

Trotsky, Leon; in exile

trout

Trubetskoy, Ekaterina

Trubetskoy, Prince Sergei

Trubetskoy, Zinaida

tsarism, antigovernment violence against; Decembrists and; exiles in Siberia and; murder of Romanov family; Time of Troubles

Tugulymskaya

Tulun

tundra

Tungus

Tunguska River

Tura River

Turgenev, Ivan;
Father and Sons

Turgenev, Nicholas

Turkey

Turukhansk

Twain, Mark;
Innocents Abroad

Twentieth Party Congress

Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Sir Ranulph

Tynda

Tyoplyi Kliuch

typhus

Tyumen

Uelen

Uglich

Uighurs

Ukraine

Ulan-Ude

Ulitsa Kosmonavta

Ulyanov, Alexander

Union of Salvation

Union of Welfare

United Energy Systems

United States; atomic bomb; Civil War; Cold War relations with Soviet Union; Lend-Lease program; oil interests in Siberia; proximity to Russia; September 11 attacks; trade with Russia; travelers to Russia; World War I; World War II

U.S. Coast Guard

Ural Mountains

Ureliki

Ussuri River

Ust-Barguzin

Ust-Kut

Ust’-Mana

Ustyug

vaccinations

vagon

Vankor

Velikii Ustyug

Venyukov, M. I.

Verkhnechonsk

Verkhoyansk

vezdekhots

Viatka

Victoria, Queen of England

Vietnam

Viliusk

villages; Old Believer;
see also specific villages

Vilnius

Vilyui River

Vissarion

Vitebsk

Vladimir

Vladimirskaya Bay

Vladivostok

vodka; at weddings

Voguls

volcanic rock

volcanoes

Volga River

Volkonsky, Maria

Volkonsky, Mikhail

Volkonsky, Sergei

Volochaevka, Battle of

Vologda

Wales

Wallace, Henry;
Soviet Asia Mission

Washington Post, The

water;
see also
rivers; sea travel;
specific bodies of water

Waterloo

watermelons

Waxell, Sven

Webb, Beatrice and Sidney

weddings

Westdahl, Norman

Western Union

whales and whaling; skulls

Wheeler, William:
The Other Side of the Earth

White Army

Willkie, Wendell

Wilson, Woodrow

winter;
see also
cold; ice; snow

wires

Wolfe, Thomas

women; babushka; beauty of; Decembrist wives
gulag prisoners; Mongol harems; sable coats; sex trafficking

World War I

World War II; Lend-Lease program

Wright, George Frederick:
Asiatic Russia

Yakushkin, Ivan Dmitrievich

Yakutia

Yakuts

Yakutsk

Yamal Peninsula

Yaroslavl, Grand Duke of Suzdal

yasak

yasaq

Yashkino

Yasumasa, Captain Fukushima

Yeltsin, Boris

Yenisei River

Yermak

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Yndrekanute

Yukos Oil

Yupiks

yurangis