Elena (Virginian Military Institute, Virginia, USA) Andreeva 
Russia and Iran in the Great Game [PDF ebook] 
Travelogues and Orientalism

This book examines the Russian explorers and officials in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who came into contact with Iran as a part of the Great Game. It demonstrates the development of Russia”s own form of Orientalism, a phenomenon that has previously been thought to be exclusive to the West.