Wikipedia also has good articles on Kasimov, the Qasim and Volga Tatars, and other Tatar subgroups. If you can read Russian, the entries in the Russian edition generally provide more extensive information.

The government of Tatarstan maintains an informative Web site  with links to people, history, culture, architecture, and more. Unfortunately, the cultural and historical portion of the site is in Russian and Tatar, not English, but the site also includes numerous photographs.

If you are interested in The Scarlet Pimpernel (see Nina’s story under Other Works), one of the best sites is Blakeney Manor: www.blakeneymanor.com.

There you can explore stills from the various film versions, download books, see images from previous printings, compare the information in the novel to French revolutionary history, and find links to other sites.

A great resource for writers (who own Macs—it runs on OS 10.4 and up) is Storyist, a combined data base/word processing program that lets you manage characters, plot threads, settings, and notes while typing your manuscript in its main window. For more information, including screen shots, see the Storyist website. An iPad version just became available in the iTunes App Store, where it is garnering five-star reviews.