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Yeah there are some pretty crazy folk tails illustrated by Ivan Bibilin, Amazing artist I think he escaped Russia after the Bolshevik take over, he was inspired by the Art Nouveau of central Europe...

I could imagine rural and uninhabited parts of the Russian taiga and Siberian wilderness being quite similar to the environment of Sam, there are probably many stories of "Russian Mountain Men" and trappers and their affairs with the various indigenous groups of northern Europe and Siberia, not sure if the encounters where more peaceful, I know in Scandinavia they baptized their indigenous population by the sword...

I guess in places far off from Europe like Siberia and Mongolia they still practice Shamanism to this day and many of the arctic and sub-arctic tribes are still nomadic moving with the herds of reindeer, Im also curious how much inter-exchange there was over the Bering Strait during these times, I mean Alaska was Russian for quite some time... Would be interesting to hear about these interactions...

Cheers!
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