Russia takes a new look at an old enemy: Genghis Khan

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | August 17, 2018 | Fred Weir Correspondent

[minnesota_bound]

#4 Filmed in Utah and is where many of the cast and crew got sick and or died from the radiation from the atomic bomb tests. John Wayne must have been drinking to have accepted that role.

[fidelis]

"Or the biggest mismatch of actor to character ever, if you leave out John Wayne’s German sea captain in “The Sea Chase”

Or if you leave out his cameo as the Roman centurian in "The Greatest Story Ever Told".

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Jagermonster.

[advance_copy]

The Mongols did some of the most horrible killing ever done. Women, children... didn’t matter. They killed everyone in awful ways for spectacle.

[Jagermonster]

You’re welcome. I thought it was an interesting article.

[WilliamWallace1999]

Only use of the word Tsar to describe their autocrat.

Read a tiny bit about Basil II, his battle with the Fatimid Caliphate, war with the Bulgars, alliance with the Rus, campaign against the Khazar Khaganate, and spread of Orthodoxy into Russia. The concept of autocratic rule took root in this part of the world a bit before the Golden Horde.

Then review the Byzantine-Mongol alliance. There is a reason the byzantine became and adjective when describing convoluted diplomacy.

Finally check out:

Byzantium and the Rise of Russia: A Study of Byzantino-Russian Relations in the Fourteenth Century Paperback – March 5, 1997
by John Meyendorff