https://aeon.co/essays/how-tsarist-russia-sought-to-make-a-tropics-on-the-black… Created Fri, 22/09/2023 - 20:00 Updated Fri, 22/09/2023 - 20:00 Imperial Russia had little access to the bountiful tropics that other empires enjoyed. So it created its own in the Caucasus - by Oleksandr Polianichev Read at Aeon
