Vassili Verestchagin : painter, soldier, traveler : autobiographical sketches (1888)
Vereshchagin, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, 1842-1904 · New York : American Art Association · leaf 81
bay where the torpedo boats lay, just getting up their steam. Quite unexpectedly, young Skobeleff appeared, took Novikoff aside, and began to talk to him with great eager- ness. He expressed his wish to be useful to the detachment, and proposed that he should accompany the expedition ; but Novikoff… … SAILOR.