The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Anatoly Sukhanov (Kopchony), and Danila Zaitsev. In Krasny Yar, Vasily and Natalya Dunkai were gracious ...

Namfou Rutten and Alex von Kemenade were generous hosts in Beijing, as was Audrey Perestyuk in Khabarovsk. ...

A number of experts in various disciplines shared their advice, research, and encouragement at crucial ...

A Note on Translation This is a book about Russians and their tigers, and much of the infor ...

Notes ...

Epigraphs: 1 Arseniev, p. 70. 2 Heaney, tr., Beowulf, lines 2415–16. ...

Chapter 2 1 Epigraph: Chehkov, p. 41. 2 “The area around these harbors”: Khisamutdinov, p ...

Chapter 3 1 Epigraph: Jeffers, p. 204. 2 “Terminal Modernism”: Hudgins, p. 150. 3 “So, what brings yo ...

Chapter 5 1 Epigraph: Gogol, p. 226. 2 “Each Siberian would be confronted”: Izvestia, Science section, ...

Chapter 6 1 Epigraph: Coxwell, p. 122. 2 200,000 people were imprisoned: Interview with Roy Medvedev on E ...

Chapter 7 1 Epigraph: From “The Book of Rites”; translation by Josh Stenberg, 2008. 2 Party slogans like ...

Chapter 8 1 “The entire winter life of a solitary tiger”: Kaplanov, 1941. 2 “Its massive body and pow ...

caught up with the Korean rebels and many were forcibly relocated to Kazakhstan along with the leader o ...

Chapter 9 1 “It’s more of a silence”: Sergei Boyko. 2 “it killed nothing”: Schaller and Lowther, p. 32 ...

Chapter 10 1 Epigraph: Gogol, p. 128. ...

Chapter 11 1 Epigraph: Thomas, The Tribe of Tiger, p. 17. 2 “... The male strode slowly”: Strachan, pp. ...

Chapter 12 1 Epigraph: Fontenrose, p. 254. 2 “like a tiger”: Nikolaevna, p. 163, fn. ...

Chapter 13 1 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (London: Blackwell, 1953/2001), p. 190. 2 Charles D ...

Chapter 14 1 Epigraph: Budiansky, p. 33. 2 “I hid inside the cavern”: Brain, p. 271. 3 “But whence came ...

Chapter 14 1 Epigraph: Coxwell, p. 114. 2 “It became a bit of a joke”: Anatoly Sukhanov (Kopchony). 3 “Th ...