In SEARCH OF MAGNA HUNGARIA. The Fur Season

Mikhail F. KOSAREV

...Sixteen centuries stand between us and the troubled times of the Turkic-Huns expansion known in history as Vlkerwanderung — The Migration Period. Caught in the turmoil of the dramatic era were the numerous old Ugrian tribes who lived in West Siberia. History sealed their fates in different ways. The southern Ugrians (modern Hungarians, or Magyars) were carried away by moving Hun tribes, endured quite a few ordeals, more than once were on the brink of ruin and finally settled on the middle Danube. The northern Ugrians after a long train of “heydays” and “lows” held their native ground — Ob-Irtysh taiga region — where they now call themselves Khanty and Mansi.
The book is a “biography” of the old Ugrian taiga clan As-Yakh (Clan of the Bear), forced to leave their land. The people were faced with the choice — either to go south and search for lands of plenty or to stay. The situation was even more tragic because they did not know for sure if a way chosen would lead to salvation or to death. And more often than not the actions of the tribes and peoples were governed not by reason but by unbridled passions...
The book suggests that the history runs in circles. The events of the past resemble in many respects what we are going through now. Maybe the past experience would warn us against the mistakes made by our predecessors and make us wiser. In the name of life...

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