Vassili Verestchagin : painter, soldier, traveler : autobiographical sketches (1888)
Vereshchagin, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, 1842-1904 · New York : American Art Association · leaf 24
ey were fine, strong chaps, with sunburnt faces, but they did not wait for our bayonets, nor even our bullets, but ran away at the very sight of us. This weakened fortress, two miles in circumference, was in ruins everywhere. There was no point at which an en- trance could not have been easily… … USBEK FROM SHAHRISYABZ {Slave Trader'),
