From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl , the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom , award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the confluence of Russian imperialism...