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Kazakhstan

Game of Thrones: The Beginning

From Sultan Akimbekov’s Course on the History of the Kazakh Khanate

~ 22 min read
Mongols

The Byzantine Wives of Mongol Khans

The Story of How Women Saved an Empire

~ 14 min read
Interviews

James Poskett:

On Decolonizing Science and Rethinking the Global History of Knowledge

~ 14 min read

Miscellaneous

Curious facts about beauty, culture and worldview of people

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Eurasia

THE GREAT GAME IN SIBERIA

How the Russian Ambassador Met Chinggisid Envoys in the Seventeenth Century

~ 13 min read
Kazakhstan

SLAVE OR ROYAL AMBASSADOR?

The Story of Aru Sultan, Who Revolutionized Fashion in London

~ 17 min read
Middle East

HOW THE BRITISH DREW BORDERS

Mandated Territories in the Middle East

~ 18 min read

Old & Good

A flavour of history

HOW ‘TATARS’ PREPARE KUMIS AND KURT

Impressions of a Thirteenth-Century European Monk

~ 4 min read
Kazakhstan

KAZAKH HAJJ IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

Pilgrimage During the Plague

~ 12 min read
East

HOW A STEPPE PRINCESS SAVED GEORGIA

The True Story of Turandot

~ 6 min read

PODCASTS

Kazakhstan

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ANCIENT SAKAS

The Warlike Tribe of Giants with Azure Eyes

~ 1 min read
People

THE ART OF SEDUCTION IN ANCIENT CHINA

How to Become an Imperial Concubine

~ 1 min read
People

3 HUMAN SPECIES, OF WHICH ONE SURVIVED

Lecture 4: How the genes of extinct people affect us

~ 1 min read

Special projects

RUBIES, SAPPHIRES, AND OTHER CARBUNCLES

Gems and People: A Dramatic Story of Love and Misunderstanding

~ 12 min read

THE GREAT NEEDLEWORK RACE

The History of Olympic Fashion

~ 11 min read

ABYLKHAN KASTEEV’S NAÏVE SOCIAL REALISM

Between the beauty of life and the power of ideology

~ 11 min read
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