7/20 https://t.co/0Bf3BOt1rw Second,Russian literature paved the way for the imperial expansion in a very literal sense. Many army officers ended up in the Caucasus corps influenced by Lermontov, Marlinsky, and Pushkin (their memoirs and letters are full of references to their reading experience).5/
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Tropics of Tsardom: Plants and Empire in the South Caucasus, 1800s–1917
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