The Friends of Tuva is an informal group that traces its origin to a simple question innocently posed over dinner more than a decade ago by renown physicist, adventurer, and raconteur, Richard Feynman: Whatever Happened to Tannu Tuva Many Tuvaphiles came by their interest in Tuva either via the numerous stamps issued in the first half of the twentieth century, via the unique music of the ...

Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Includes archival materials from the Library of Congress, the National Library ...