The Great Game
1830–1907* · Event
Britain and Russia shadow-box across Central Asia for eighty years — spies as surveyors, khanates as pawns, Afghanistan as the buffer neither can hold.
On these timelines: The Silk Road & the Steppe, Master, British Empire, Russia & the USSR
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