Description

The short book presented here, part of a three volume work on the history of relations between Russia and Asia, focuses on northern Japan. It contains the second and third parts of volume 2 and covers the history of the first relations between Russian and Japan and reflections on those relations in the context of life in northern Japan. The author, Dmitrii Matveevich Pozdneev (1865‒1937), was a respected Russian Asia expert. He was born into a large priestly family and began his studies at the Kiev Theological Seminary. His ...