{"title":"Mark Galeotti","description":"Mark Galeotti is a scholar of Russian security affairs with a career spanning academia, government service and business. He is a prolific author and frequent media commentator. He heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy. Angel García Pinto was born in Madrid in 1968. He attended University in the Faculty of Fine Arts (Madrid) and worked for Spanish newspapers for 15 years, primarily creating portraits. In recent years, he has specialized in historical and military historical subjects.","products":[{"product_id":"siege-of-kazan-1552-ivan-the-terrible-breaks-the-kazan-khanate-paperback","title":"Siege of Kazan 1552: Ivan the Terrible Breaks the Kazan Khanate - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRussian expert Mark Galeotti provides an in-depth look at the siege that pitted Ivan the Terrible and Russia's first standing army against the Khanate of Kazan, leading to Muscovy's rise.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Khanate of Kazan, one of the greatest Turkic successor states to the Mongol Golden Horde, had for generations been a thorn in Muscovy's side, raiding its lands for slaves and plunder. 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