"I would like it very much if young Kalmuk boys were learning religion.

Their first temple - there are now three, one of them on Kalmuk Road - was built in a year.

The name Kalmuk comes from a Turkic term, meaning "remnant."

Her father, a Kalmuk, was born in Germany; her mother, a Catholic, in Atlantic City.

As part of this France displayed a Dahomey (now Benin) village; and Russia a Kalmuk camp.

Tenzing Dakpa is one of the Tibetan priests recruited by the Kalmuk elders to keep their faith alive.

Settled on Volga's Banks To the sharp eye, Mr. Adianov explained, some signs of the Kalmuk presence would be quite visible.

The nearest cabinet displayed national types - Turkman, Uzbek, Kalmuk, etc. - assembled with the sort of vacant gazes that typify group portraits.

Kalmuk premiered in Helsinki 2000 then toured UK in 2002 with a simultaneous DVD release featuring extra video effects and archive film footage.

In fact, said Mr. Adianov, he knows of only one young Kalmuk who has decided to enter the priesthood in recent years: he left a few years ago to study in India.

There are astonishing nuanced quivers and virtuosity from a male trio: their mimicry of birds and horses in the "Kalmuk Dance" is rooted in the customs of another Buddhist population.

It was used to designate a union of seven Cossack territorial "units" - the Don, Kuban, Terek, Astrakhan, Ural, Orenburg, and the Kalmuk district.

Some of the Kalmuk Cossacks still had their horses and the little tented carts in which they had travelled, and in the water all sorts of rubbish floated - trunks, clothes, furniture, even corpses.

One Kalmuk leader of the Dzungars named Ayusi defected to the Chinese side and attacked the Dzungar camp at Gadan-Ola (Battle of Gadan-Ola).

This burst of color is followed by the mimetic "Kalmuk Dance," whose dancers, Aleksei Ignatov, Andrei Evalanov and Konstantin Kostylev, quiver with nuance as they evoke birds and hunters.

According to N. F. Bugai, the leading Russian expert on deportations, 4.9% of the Kalmuk population died during the first three months of 1944; 1.5% in the first three months of 1945; and 0.7% in the same period of 1946.

Pohjonen enjoys a high profile UK with performances at The Proms at Royal Albert Hall London, Jazz Festival at the Barbican, Kalmuk and Kluster at Queen Elizabeth Hall and solo in the Purcell Room.

In 1771, following the Kalmyck exodus to Dzungaria, the area became depopulated.

She was rumoured to be the daughter of Catherine; a legend claimed that she was born instead of the later Emperor Paul, but switched with the son of a Kalmyck woman because of her gender, since a male heir was wanted.