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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

could not compete with them for long and dropped out of the race, allowing them to
skim all the cream. When the civil war in China resulted in the silk “river” turning
into a little “brook”, the Khazarian Israelites found a way out of this situation too:

“… The catastrophe which befell the caravan route from China to Spain, the
“silk route” certainly affected Khazaria too. But energetic Khazarian merchants at
the head with their ruler the title of which was “bey” or “malik” found a way out.
Their detachments moved north. Moving up along the Volga, the warriors of Khaza-
ria raided and subordinated Volga Bulgaria (or Volga-Kama Bolghar ).
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Boundless lands, which in the Norwegian sagas were called Biarmia (also
spelled Bjarmland or Bjarmia) and in the Russian chronicles — the Great Perm, ex-
tended far to the north, where the merchant-rahdonits (pers. “that who knows the
way”) organized their settlements — trade bases. The forests of Biarmia were a
source of precious furs, sable, marten and ermine. Moreover, rahdonits organized
the trade in children. Again, the caravans moved one after the other: with furs for
the Arabian nobility and slaves for the harems of Moslem rulers. Sultans and emirs of
the Baghdad caliphate valued warrior-slaves (“sacaliba”) more than the hired de-
tachments of independent nomads …». 165

Thus, the Khazarian Israelites “straddled” all the basic trade-routes of Eurasia
(Fig. 37).

164 Volga Bulgaria or Volga-Kama Bolghar, is an historic state that existed between the seventh and thirteenth
centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers in what is now Russia. Today, both the Republics of Ta-
tarstan and Chuvashia are considered to be descendants of Volga Bulgaria.
165 L.N. Gumilev From Rus to Russia, Chapter 2. The Slavs and their enemies, p. 50 –51.

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