Russia: Breakthrough to the East

Central Asia is a special region, the most important part of the Islamic world and the geographical link between the West and the East. Inseparable bonds that go to the depths of centuries are associated with Central Asia with Russia. The influence of Russia on Central Asia dictated by political interests was extremely strong. As a result of this relationship - political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural - is devoted to this work, which is considered among the experts classic. This is not only a source of the most diverse useful information, but also an extremely entertaining historical reading, transmitting the dynamics of contradictory, dramatic and inevitable interpenetration of two powerful cultures - Russian and Asian