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If you are interested in any of our other collections, please visit us at www.idc.nl. On our website you can also download our General Terms & Conditions of Sale. 1. Archive Series 1620-1917, Russian State Military History Archive (RGVIA), Moscow 1. A threat from the Far East: China, Japan, Korea 2. Eastern Question: , , Arabia, Syria 3. in Central Asia: Persia (Iran), Afghanistan

2. Secret Prints 1883-1914, All prices given are subject to change without prior notice. Prices do not include VAT (applicable only to residents of the Netherlands and residents of other EU member states without a VAT registration number). Prices do not include shipping & handling. Note that customers in North America will be charged in US$. National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg Russian Military Intelligence on Asia Archive Series, 1620-1917 P r o d u ct in f o rmat I O N

IDC offers two collections of Russian military intelligence on Asia, namely the Archive Series and the Secret Prints. Together, they IDC’s Russian Military Intelligence on Asia’s archive series gathers the holdings of the Russian State Military History Archive (RGVIA) in comprise a wealth of hitherto virtually unknown data about Asia that were gathered before the 20th century by explorers, military Moscow for nine countries: Russian Intelligence on Asia attachés, diplomats, academics, and others. The importance of these materials is hard to exaggerate: They will be invaluable to The material is in Russian and various European and Oriental scholars who are interested in both Imperial Russia and the Asian continent. Until very recently, the pre-revolutionary general - A threat from the Far East: China, Japan, Korea staff’s vast Asian holdings remained largely off-limits to scholars. Now, for the first time, IDC is making the more significant archival languages. collections available to research libraries on microfilm and fiche, as well as part of its new Digital Library. - Eastern Question: Turkey, Palestine, Arabia, Syria - The Great Game in Central Asia: Persia (Iran), Afghanistan Archive Series, 1620-1917 Russian expansion in Asia Intelligence information The collections contain The Far Eastern Threat – The Eastern Question – The Great Game – Russian State Military History Archive (RGVIA), The 19th century was a time of rapid Gathering and analyzing such intelligence • the political reports, diaries Russian expansion in Asia. While its also became much more comprehensive, and summaries produced in the Confronting China and Japan Confronting Turkey Confronting Persia Moscow western borders were largely fixed in almost encyclopedic. It entailed not only diplomatic posts While Imperial Russia never formally went During the last two centuries of its The 18th and 19th centuries saw Russia go 1. A threat from the Far East: China, Japan, Korea the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, the the armed forces and the terrain of all • reports of military attachés to war with China, tsarist interest in its existence, the clashed with to war with Persia four times. While tsarist 2. Eastern Question: Turkey, Palestine, Arabia, Syria (50% of the Romanov autocracy still found many potential adversaries, but also political, • regular correspondence with the vast Far Eastern neighbor increased during Turkey no less than eight times; one of ambitions focused largely on the Caucasus, collection) outlets for its imperial energies in the economic, ethnographic, and much other Russian general staff the 19th century, as the decline of the Qing these conflicts was the disastrous Crimean London came to fear grander designs in a 3. The Great Game in Central Asia: Persia (Iran), Afghanistan East. data. • many maps dynasty offered tempting opportunities War. Known to Victorian England as “The rivalry for dominion over Asia that they

• drawings for expansion. Furthermore, because of Eastern Question,” these confrontations dubbed “the Great Game.” IDC’s Great • More than 2,000 files Imperial Russia’s Asian march coincided Tsarist military intelligence on Asia Russia’s long history of informal relations, were a major feature of the era’s great Game collection includes close to 200 maps. • 93 microfilm reels with a revolution in intelligence. therefore constitutes a gold mine of its citizens were in a singularly favorable power struggle. The Russian general staff The texts range from surveys of political, • List Price € 12,090 / $ 15,345 information about the continent. position to study regions of China that were gathered an enormous mass of data about economic, and military developments, to entirely inaccessible to other Europeans. its Ottoman adversary, which are grouped Armenian separatism and Russian military • Including EAD Finding Aid IDC’s Far Eastern Threat Collection in the Eastern Question component of IDC’s assistance to the Persian army. • Also available in IDC’s Digital Library at www.idc-diglib.nl* comprises broader military, political, Russian Military Intelligence collection. economic, ethnographic, and geographical Comprising more than 1,000 separate files, studies, as well as valuable primary the archive includes classified attaché and Secret Prints, 1883-1914 documents about the annexation of the diplomatic reports on Turkish politics, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg and regions, the Crisis, the British influence, the organization and Sino-Russian alliance, and concessions in condition of the Turkish army, the defenses China, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Palestine, Arabia, Syria, Persia (Iran), Manchuria. of the Bosporus and the Afghanistan, Russian Central Asia and Caucasus. Straits, as well as nationalist revolts in the Balkans and elsewhere. There are also • 96 volumes over 500 maps, plans, diagrams, and other • 502 microfiches illustrations. • List price € 5,552 / $ 7,655 • Including EAD Finding Aid • Also available in IDC’s Digital Library at www.idc-diglib.nl*

Secret Prints, 1883-1914 * Price quotations are available on request: [email protected]

Taking History into the Future One of the most remarkable pre- officers, many of whom had extensive EAD Finding Aid revolutionary Orientological publications training in geography and related is the little-known, classified “Collection disciplines. Among the more illustrious In order to describe archival collections accurately and on a of Geographical, Topographical and authors are Nikolai Przhevalskii, Aleksei detailed level, IDC Publishers has adopted the Archives, Personal Geographical Materials on Asia” (Sbornik Kuropatkin, Nikolai Ermolov, Gustav Papers and Manuscripts standard (APPM). geograficheskikh, topograficheskikh i Mannerheim, Lavr Kornilov, and Andrei statisticheskikh materialov po Azii). Issued by Snesarev. Other articles range from attaché The finding aids that are created in the Russian General Staff between 1883 and and diplomatic dispatches to histories of accordance with this standard are 1914 in 87 thick volumes and 9 supplements tsarist plans for the invasion of India, the tagged in EAD (Encoded Archival (averaging about 300 pages each), the siege of Herat, and European campaigns Because the collections were classified Description), a format that has been journal’s purpose was to disseminate against China. Together, they comprise a as either “Secret” or “For Internal Use rapidly, widely and internationally to senior tsarist military commanders unique and largely untapped source for Only,” and were published in only a embraced, particularly by university archives and special important scholarship about the continent 19th-century Asia. small print run, there are no complete collections departments within academic libraries. written by Russian and Western explorers, collections available abroad, and even officers, and academics. David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, the holdings of Russia’s leading libraries The finding aids to both collections are in Russian and English. Associate Professor of History, Brock are often wanting. IDC’s Military The bulk of the Secret Prints consists University Intelligence Collection therefore makes of first-hand accounts composed by available for the first time this valuable contemporary travellers to lesser-known resource to the scholarly community reaches of Asia. Most were Russian army worldwide.