Geography Reference
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who spoke a form of Kypchak. Even as the Nogais were political enemies of Muscovy, they
traded with the principality, and welcomed Ivan's soldiery to keep the main roads safe. The
sea of grasslands was a complex enormity in which Mongols and Tatars, with their armies
sometimes overlapping, made war—and also had commerce—with the Russians. And re-
member, as hard and complicated as the flatlands were, the Caucasus range was more so,
and thus more exotic to Russian eyes, accounting for the Russian obsession with them.
