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Commerce amid suspicion: Inside Russia’s 19th-century push to trade with India
In March 1871, the 3,200-tonne steamship Nakhimoff departed from the Black Sea port of Odessa for a voyage to Bombay. It was a landmark journey made possible by the opening of the Suez Canal two years earlier – the ship would pass through major ports in …
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