HISTORY AND DAILY LIFE a brief history of russia

... Caspian Sea of southern Europe in the west and to the Altai Mountains and Lake Baikal in the physical heartland of Asia xiii A BRIEF HISTORY OF RUSSIA in the east It therefore is understandable... million square miles, an area larger than Canada Most of Siberia’s great rivers—the Ob-Irtysh, the Yenisey, the Angara (a tributary of the Yenisey), and the Lena—rise in the Asian heartland and flow... central European river, across all of Asia and the Eastern Ocean, down to the remote American lands! [At the time Russia owned Alaska.] A distance of five thousand versts in width from Persia,