At Kalka the Mongols also defeated the Polovtsy people, from whom the Tatars are descended, and who on this occasion had sided with the Russians, with whom they had fought in previous periods ...
The Russians, he says, will see off the coronavirus the same way they dealt with the Pechenegs and Polovtsy, the Turkic invaders of the 10th and 11th centuries. With big swords and hand sanitisers, ...