Contact Profiles
These are some members of the Red Kaganate.
If you find no one in your region, drop the Editor a line [email protected],
maybe there's someone who neglected to publicise the information.
If there doesn't happen to be anyone around there, well then ... Tag you're it!
Email the Editor to add yourself to the list.
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Norman J. Finkelshteyn
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Personna Name:
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Nahum Kuzari (Naum Gershovich Khazarin)
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Location:
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Brooklyn, New York
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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SCA
MSR
...that Late Roman group in Inwood (near Fort Tryumph park)
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Notes:
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Norman is first an armourer and fencer.
His primary cultural interests are with the Khazars, any of the ethno-culturally Jewish groups of the region, and any of the other peoples of the general region (Rus, Pechenegs, KaraKalpaks, Polovtsi, Golden Horde...).
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He speaks and writes Russian and has put his hand to translating materials for the Kaganate.
Norman is also the Editor for this Site.
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Dmitriy V. Ryaboy
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Personna Name:
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Dmitriy Shelomianin
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Location:
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Berkeley, California
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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SCA - squire to Sir Brand McClelland
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Notes:
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Main interests are Kievian Rus' culture, Kipchaks, Black Hats, Scandinavians,
Armour of all sorts.
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As of this writing (in October of 2001) Dmitriy is a 4th year student at UC Berkeley, but he doesn't do protests.
He does, however, spend far too much of his time on studying Scandinavian
and Nomad cultures. He is also interested in the study of Medieval Swordsmanship as seen in historical manulas (Fiore, I33, Ringeck).
His armour has improved since the photo was taken.
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Dmitriy is fluent in Russian, and often puts that
knowledge to use by translating articles of interest to the Red Kaganate.
Dmitriy is the moderator of our yahoogroups e-mail list.
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Russ Mitchell
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Personna Name:
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Location:
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Texas
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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Experimental Archaeology and Steppe martial arts
group in Budapest.
Soon be associated (hopefully) with similar groups at
Texas A&M.
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Notes:
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Russ is pursuing a doctorate on the use and reconstruction of the use
of the medieval and early modern sabre in Hungary and Eastern
Europe/Ottoman lands, and, although lack of yard space has prevented it, the
reconstruction and use of felt materials, period fabric dying techniques, decorative metalwork, and the making of bone tools..
Russ has a big cat.
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He takes himself very seriously, indeed. And would love to be able to
send in a photograph of himself in caftan, mail shirt, felt hat, etc....
except none of that's really arrived yet. So you're stuck with the cat.
Primarily interested in martial dance, period martial arts, and daily
life in medieval and Ottoman-period Hungary, including differences between
Hungarians proper and other peoples settled within the Hungarian
kingdom: the Szek�ly, Cumans/Polovitsi/Kun, Alans, etcetera.
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Joseph Skeesick
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Personna Name:
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Janos |
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Location:
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Somewhere in England |
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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SCA
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Notes:
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K. B.
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This is not really K.B. - I think it's Chingis Khan's wife
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Personna Name:
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Bojei Temur
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Location:
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Chicago, Illinois (suburbs actualy)
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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SCA, Dark Horde Moritu
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Notes:
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Bojei Temur's primary area of interest is mongolian history and everything connected to it. And armor. And fighting (the period manuals too.) And vinting. And cooking. And a little more cooking......
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Marge
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Personna Name:
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Yakutah
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Location:
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Boseman, Montana
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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SCA
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Notes:
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Marge plays with the SCA in the Shire of Silverkeep, Artemisia.
Her persona is, more or less, 11th century Seljuk. It's in development.
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Laura Davids Todd
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Personna Name:
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Leya sher Kimmer
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Location:
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area of Philly and Valley Forge
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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SCA (Hartshorn-dale)
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Notes:
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Laura's home is in the vicinity of Valley Forge. Nice place to hike, lots of
deer.
Laura is not an SCA fighter, but she has shot a bow.
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Her major interests are Khazaria and Middle Eastern music & dancing.
She got interested in Khazaria a year ago & ended up writing a very large
historical novel about her Khazar persona, a Turkic-Jewish warrior woman who
fought against the Rus at the battle of Sarkel.
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Jeffrey C. Smith
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Personna Name:
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Sovany Barcsi Janos
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Location:
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near Heidelberg, Germany (up in the mountains)
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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SCA (Barony of Knights Crossing)
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Notes:
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Jeff's personna is a Magyar from 1001 AD. He has been researching the persona
for over 20 years, including a research trip to Hungary.
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In the SCA, Jeff has been Kingdom Principal Herald (Ansteorra) and herald at
every level. Twice a branch founder, seneschal, chronicler. About to become
Kingdom Chatelaine. |
Member of Grand Council of the SCA.
Sometime author in heraldic circles (wrote articles on Hungarian and Mongolian names, drafted the Hungarian alternative titles list, and others). A fighter and herald, in reenactment since 1976.
He is now bringing that dedication and know-how to The Kaganate.
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Andrew van Ross
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Personna Name:
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Location:
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Herford, Germany |
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E-mail:
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[email protected]
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Other Affiliations:
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Notes:
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Andrew's main interest is the political and military history of the
central and eastern muslim provinces from the early 7th c. CE to the
Mamluk coup of 1250 CE.
He does recreations of various early muslim garments,
uniforms, jewelry and armour.
He is also working on a project concerning conquest era hungarian warfare.
A long term goal is the study of "islamic sciences", which
deals with arabic, persian and turkic literature and politics.
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