Vassili Verestchagin : painter, soldier, traveler : autobiographical sketches (1888)
Vereshchagin, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, 1842-1904 · New York : American Art Association · leaf 60
goose ; in another a sheep had been stolen, and consumed with such skill that neither skin nor bones were to be found. Com- plaints were also brought, but only once, of a woman being attacked by Cossacks. We marched on with great caution, as if in an enemy’s country, with patrols, which Skobeleff… … HE ATTACKED A WOMAN.