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**Janet Hartley – *Volga: A History of Russia’s Greatest River***
The Volga needs no introduction, but if you need a reminder of its ties to Russia, consider just a few threads: history from the Khazars and the Golden Horde to Ivan the Terrible’s campaigns and the Battle of Stalingrad; from the peasant uprisings of Razin and Pugachev to the Civil War and the deportations of peoples. Economics from the Nizhny Novgorod fair to the Astrakhan trading compounds of Armenians, Persians, and Indians. Technology from the burlaki (barge haulers) and steamships to the cascade of hydroelectric power stations.
Almost everyone has their own associations with the Volga, but whatever they may be, it remains one of those symbols of the country without which Russia is absolutely impossible to imagine.
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