Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men

7 hrs. 5 min.

Language Russian

Author Harold Lamb

Narrator Jahangir Abdullaev

Description

An original fictionalized biography of Genghis Khan—the nomad who, seven hundred years ago, forced half the world to live by his laws. The conqueror of the three strongest empires led his merciless warriors out of the darkness of the Gobi Desert from victory to victory. Courage, cunning, and boundless faith that the Mongols were the masters of the world inspired Genghis Khan. Lands from Armenia to Korea and from Tibet to the Volga accepted the yasa of the ruler of savage nomads who had neither written language, nor cities, nor religion. Muslims saw the invasion as an act of God’s punishment. For Christians, the hordes of Mongols became soldiers of the Antichrist, while Buddhists worshiped Genghis Khan as a terrestrial embodiment of Shiva. Yet in him there was neither Napoleon’s fatalism nor Hitler’s mysticism; he also did not presume his own divinity, like Alexander the Great and Caesar. Pragmatism, bestial cunning, and a primeval sense of expediency guided his actions—and this ensured the rule of his descendants, the Chinggisids, for several centuries. The book vividly and vividly recounts all the major events of the era of Genghis Khan’s reign, the cruelty and progressive transformations of the great ruler who forced fifty peoples to live under his yoke.