A race through the snows of Russian history

An historian charts the perpetually shifting images and metaphors through which Russians imagined, or were told to imagine, their origins.

Incarcerated: Russian historian Yuri Dmitriev
ALAMY/REUTERS, ANTON VAGANOV

Orlando Figes new book offers a sweeping account of Russian historiography from its twelfth-century controversies to those of the twenty-first.

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