It is also evident that some separate ideas of Marr himself influenced eth-nogenetic discourses. He was very interested in the Chuvash language, and believed that Chuvash was the only language which was preserved from that tightly connected group of Japhetic languages, from which Turkic languages were subsequently formed, and that Chuvash had contributed to formation of the Russian language. He thought that although the Chuvash became an un-derdeveloped people because of Russian and Tatar imperialism, they origi-nally possessed a high culture and were related not only to the Bulghars but also to the Sumerians.44 But such fantasies of Marr occupied only marginal places in Marrist ethnogenetics.