Elena AndreevaElena Andreeva is a Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute, USA. She is the author of Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism (2007) and Russian Central Asia in the Works of Nikolai Karazin, 18421908: Ambivalent Triumph (2021), and co-editor (with Rudi Matthee) of Russians in Iran: Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond (2018). Read More Read Less