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A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia

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The Gypsies of Russia occupy a unique place in the history of European Rom. Relative latecomers to Russian parts of the burgeoning tsarist empire, Gypsy musicians—and a Rom mystique—captured the imaginations of the Russian public in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and became an integral part of Russian music, literature, and theater.

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