Vassili Verestchagin : painter, soldier, traveler : autobiographical sketches (1888)
Vereshchagin, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, 1842-1904 · New York : American Art Association · leaf 19
SAMARCAND. 5 you do. All trace of you will be lost, and we shall be unable even to discover your murderers.” I must confess that I did not even then believe in the existence of any real danger, and would have ridden out of town again if it had not been for a sitting promised me by a Persian from an… … AN AFGHAN. The report with reference to the approach of the enemy from the direction of the khanates was confirmed on the fob
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