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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
Kirill Rivkin is indeed quite popular with me, but for his outstanding research and knowledge which he has always generously shared with myself and others in our queries in these topics. I have NO idea what you mean about politics, but understand there is a cultural and language gap here. I will say your English is much better than my Russian, which is nil.
Of course I believe in broad research sources, which is why I asked for the other books you mentioned, and thank you for sharing the titles and the illustrations of the books. While these are of course not only difficult to acquire here and of course to translate, my point was that certainly Kirill Rivkin has access to these and likely filtered much of the material into his work as applicable. I believe typically authors do share and corroborate data and ideas.
Obviously no single resource is entirely relied upon by any responsible researcher, and my endorsement on Mr. Rivkins book was to say it is a most valuable reference which has many details often not available to non Russian speakers.
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Again, I want to emphasize that there is no reason to dislike Rivkin's work and knowledge
.I realize that this is almost the only way for this topic to reach a wide audience that does not understand the Russian language.I myself am in close contact with leading experts and collectors related to the topic of the Caucasus.The general opinion is , that the topic is extremely vast and it is almost impossible to cover it in just one study and by one author.