FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 6 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:
A new volume, co-edited by Distinguished Professor of History Trish Starks, explores the idea and experience of cold throughout Russian history and culture, showing how Russia's cold was interpreted as everything from enemy to opportunity and adventure to metaphor.
The essays in A Frozen State: Experiencing Cold in Russian History and Culture regale with tales Russia's ice hills, the precursors to today's roller coasters, enjoyed by Catherine the Great and later, the Romanovs. They thrill with stories of dark tourism sites like an icy, abandoned Russian mining town to the north of Svalbard, and they reveal how the discovery of frozen mammoths in 19...