Russian into Iakuts? `Going native' and problems of Russian national identity in the Siberian...

Focuses on the assimilation of Russians in the eastern borderlands of the Russian empire in the late imperial period. Ways in which Russians and non-Russians influenced one another in the mixed settlement worlds of the borderlands; Reference to most of the nativized Russian communities being in the Siberian north; Description of Russian nativization in the Serbian north; Problems of Russian national identity in the Serbian North from 1870 to 1914.