{"title":"The Watchmaker: Entangled Histories of Eurasia's 19th Century Viewed through the Prism of a Traveler's Odyssey","authors":"James B Pickett","doi":"10.1353/kri.2023.a904387","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"So began the Cossack soldier’s debriefing in the year 1859, when he had just made it back to Orenburg after more than a decade of captivity in Central Asia.2 The Russian military in Orenburg had taken a special interest in Gordeev and other former prisoners because they all had extensive, firsthand knowledge of the Central Asian polities Russia would defeat in less than a decade.3 Beyond the military intel about troublesome neighbors, the Russian officer’s interest was also piqued by Gordeev’s narrative about a European prisoner in Central Asia: Giovanni, an Italian watchmaker whose journey into Persian-speaking territories began in Tehran and","PeriodicalId":45639,"journal":{"name":"KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY","volume":"24 1","pages":"611 - 634"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2023.a904387","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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So began the Cossack soldier’s debriefing in the year 1859, when he had just made it back to Orenburg after more than a decade of captivity in Central Asia.2 The Russian military in Orenburg had taken a special interest in Gordeev and other former prisoners because they all had extensive, firsthand knowledge of the Central Asian polities Russia would defeat in less than a decade.3 Beyond the military intel about troublesome neighbors, the Russian officer’s interest was also piqued by Gordeev’s narrative about a European prisoner in Central Asia: Giovanni, an Italian watchmaker whose journey into Persian-speaking territories began in Tehran and
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A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history and culture, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.