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  • MediaDB / «Visiting the Emir of Bukhara" Vsevolod Krestovsky: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 1887 / Vsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovsky 1839–1895 “Visiting the Emir of Bukhara" is Krestovsky’s travel notes when he was in 1882. participated in the embassy of friendship of the Governor General of Tashkent M.G. Chernyaev to Bukhara. In the author's characteristic simple and fascinating form, issues of history, life, and culture of the peoples of Russian Turkestan are touched upon. The electronic version of the book completely preserves the original text, engravings, as well as the style and alphabet of the Russian literary language of the 19th century, and adds illustrations - reproductions of paintings by Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin.