Tartary, the vanished country. A new version of ethnogenesis of the Yakuts (Sakha)

      Аннотация: In the expanses of today’s Yakutia and Russian Far East there used to exist a country of Tartary that presumably lasted from the end of 12th century till the middle of 16th century. It might have been a colonial country founded by North European countires and provided Arctic Ocean commodity exchange between European and Asian economies. It is possible to assume that modern Yakut (Sakha) people, living in the north of Russia, are direct descendants of European colonizers resulting from their mixed marriages with women of different ethnicities. The author of the following research comes to such conclusion resting on his own hypothesis that Elley – Sakha people’s legendary ancestor – might have a Norman origin. The following book is intended for a wide range of readers interested in historical, ethnographic and folklore issues of peoples of Russia.

Ключевые слова: North-East Asia, Tartary, gigantic cannibals, Elley, Yakuts (Sakha).