Taming the Wild Field
Subtitle: Colonization And Empire on the Russian Steppe
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801473470
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History: World; History; History - General History; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Human Geography
First sentence: According to the Primary Chronicle, when the first Eastern Slays established themselves in what become Ukraine and western Russia they settled in woods and along waterways: "So these Slays came and settled on the Dniepr and called themselves People of the Clearings [poliane]; others called themselves People of the Trees [drevliane] because they settled in the forests; and different ones settled on the Dvina and called themselves People of the Polota [polochane], taking the name of the Polota River, which flows into the Dvina.