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The Great Game's Forgotten Front: Khiva 1873
In 1873, Tsar Alexander II's army marched through frozen desert to conquer the Khanate of Khiva, a Silk Road stronghold so remote that even the British hesitated to touch it. This episode goes inside the Khiva campaign — the brutal winter march, the fall of the city, and the strange aftermath where a Russian general restored a khan to his throne. We meet the charismatic Kazakh leader Kenesary Kasymov, whose rebellion shaped Russian strategy, and we explore how the conquest of Khiva became a turning point in the Great Game, forcing reforms and setting the stage for the cotton monoculture…
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