6/12While the Kremlin often contrastsRussia's purportedly "anti-colonial" expansion inthe19th century with the violent British conquest of India, War Minister Chernyshev in1842proposed subjugating the Caucasus the British way to minimize bloodshed. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1800869503062175861.html
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Poem of Taras Shevchenko, "The Сaucasus". Translated from Ukrainian by Vera Rich
Tropics of Tsardom: Plants and Empire in the South Caucasus, 1800s–1917
