Volga Kalmyks and Kazakhs, Eighteenth – Early Nineteenth Centuries: More on the Evolution of Their Relations [PDF]
Introduction. The paper introduces some newly discovered archival material and sources in different languages to examine the shaping of Kalmyk-Kazakh relations in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Kadyrbayev Alexander Sh.
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Kalmyk-Tibetan Relations at the Turn of the 17th and 18th Centuries [PDF]
The article deals with an episode in the history of Tibetan-Kalmyk relations at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Galdan Boshugtu Khan’s death and the 6th Dalai Lama’s formal assumption of political power in Tibet in 1697, arrival of Arabjur’s ...
V. T. Tepkeev, V. P. Sanchirov
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On the question of the attempt of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski to establish Polish-Kalmyk relations in 1683–1686 [PDF]
The article is devoted to one of the little-known pages in Russian history, namely international relations of the Kalmyk Khanate in the 17th–18th centuries.
V. T. Tepkeev
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Kalmyk Letters of the Late Seventeenth Century: More on Variants of Synchronic Russian Translations [PDF]
Introduction. Russian translations of Kalmyk official letters housed at Russia’s archives may serve as vivid historical sources both on seventeenth–eighteenth century Kalmyk-Russian relations — and on how translation studies emerged and developed in our ...
Yarmarkina Galina M.
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Zunghars in Southern Russia in the Late 17th Сentury [PDF]
The article is devoted to the migration of a part of Zunghars (Dzungar people) from Central Asia to the borders of South Russia in the late 17 century, which still remains insufficiently explored in the historiography.
V. T. Tepkeev
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Three Seals of Khan Ayuka [PDF]
Introduction. Recent years have witnessed some publications of letters signed by Kalmyk Khans, nobility, and containing samples of Kalmyk sphragistics. The seals are of great interest for Kalmyk historical political studies and have never been explored before.
Vladimir T. Tepkeev, Evgeny V. Bembeev
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A Historical Aspect of Mazan Baatar’s Biography [PDF]
With evidence from Russian and Oirat primary sources as well as the oral tradition, the articles investigates the ancestry and clan history of Mazan Baatar and clears up some mistakes introduced by previous researchers.
А. .. Basang
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РУССКО-КАЛМЫЦКИЕ ПЕРЕГОВОРЫ И ШЕРТЬ 1673 г. [PDF]
The article is devoted to one of the important chapters in the history of Kalmyk-Russian relations in the XVIIth century. The conclusion of the shert in 1673 ushered in an era of government of the Kalmyk Khan Ayuka, and Russia has acquired a loyal ally ...
Vladimir Toltaevich Tepkeev
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Russian-Kalmyk Negotiations and the Shert’ of 1677 [PDF]
Introduction. The article discusses circumstances behind the Russian-Kalmyk negotiations and Shert’ (‘oath/treaty of allegiance’) of 1677. Goals. The study seeks to introduce some newly discovered sources dealing with seventeenth-century Kalmyk-Russian ...
Vladimir T. Tepkeev
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Consistency in the reporting of sexual behaviour by adolescent girls in Kenya: a comparison of interviewing methods. [PDF]
This paper explores the consistency in reporting of sexual behavior in a household survey of adolescents aged 15-21 in the Kisumu district of Kenya. Respondents were randomly assigned to different interviewing modes: face-to-face interviews, paper-and ...
Hewett PC, Mensch BS, Erulkar AS.
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