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The Fall of Baghdad, 1258, depicting a leading official's (the davāt-dār (chief secretary)) failed attempt to escape by boat from the city (right). Being unsuccessful, he fled back to Baghdad, painting from the Diez albums in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, c. 1350. The Siege of Baghdad (1258) occurred when a Mongol army led by Hulegu Khan attacked the Abbasid capital after tensions with the caliph Al-Musta'sim. Sent west by Möngke Khan, Hulegu had already subdued Persia and defeated the Nizari Ismailis. When the caliph refused to support him and mishandled negotiations, Hulegu decided to invade.

In early 1258, the Mongols surrounded Baghdad, quickly defeating its defenders and breaching its walls with siege engines. The city fell within weeks; the caliph surrendered on 10 February, but the Mongols proceeded to sack the city, killing large numbers of inhabitants and executing al-Musta'sim.

Kalmyk dancers from the Soviet-era ensemble Tulpan in the city of Elista, Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR

The state folk ensemble Tulpan was formed in 1937 in order to promote traditional Kalmyk music during the Soviet Unions - Korenizatsiia ("Indigenization") policy time period. During this point of Soviet history, the state sought to eliminate Russian political and cultural domination in regions where ethnic Russians were not a majority, in order to promote representation of Indigenous groups, and counter what they deemed as ethnic-Russian chauvinism and counter-revolutionary ("bourgeoise") nationalism among ethnic minorities. This policy was enacted in Ukraine, Central Asia, Moldova, the Baltics, southern Caucasus, and within Russia itself; including Kalmykia.

Korenizatsiia led to the establishment of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within Russia for the Kalmyk people, who are a Mongolic ethnic group from the steppes of European Russia.