The Russian Conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century\'s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar\'s domains.
From the earliest conflicts on the steppe frontier in the 1830s to the annexation of the.
Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic history of the Conquest to be published for over a hundred years.
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century\'s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar\'s domains