Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism(Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History)

Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

This book examines the Russian explorers and officials in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who came into contact with Iran as a part of the Great Game. It demonstrates the development of Russia's own form of Orientalism, a phenomenon that has previously been thought to be exclusive to the West.