27 February 2013
Despite the fact that trains are once again running from Sukhum to Adler, Sochi and Moscow, many railway stations remain abandoned and/or in disrepair and it is possible to walk along the single track.
The slideshow below shows a selection of stations, between Psou at the Russian border and …
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21 February 2013
Caucasus — In the wake of warriors
Nicholas Griffin
Review, London
August 2001
256 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7472-3630-6
(In subsequent years republished with a variety of different subtitles (A Journey, A Journey in the Crucible of Civilisation, A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam and Mountain Men and Holy Wars …
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6 February 2013
The Ghost of Freedom — A History of the Caucasus
Charles King
Oxford University Press, New York
January 2008
314 pages
ISBN: 978-0-19-517775-6
The Ghost of Freedom is not really a history of the Caucasus, but rather a history of the Caucasus and Russia's involvement therein since 1800. Moreover, much of …
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