ABSTRACT
Russia and China first made contact in Outer Mongolia at the time of the Tatar invasion, though it is stated that the Russians and Mongols came together as early as the eighth century. Temuchin won his western campaign in the thirteenth century and made himself ‘Emperor of all men’ with the title of ‘Genghis Khan’. Harking back to the very dawn of Russian history, we find the forest zone in the north inhabited by scattered Finnish tribes as early as the third century. Having achieved a power greater than that of the ancient Hsiung-Nu Empire, Genghis Khan made his first conquest of China, and by 1224, four years before his death, the Mongolian invasion had swept over all Asia as far as south-eastern Europe. Mongol administration, after the conquest of Russia, is also interesting. They had no ambition to possess the land overrun, since they already had plenty to spare.
