Vassili Verestchagin : painter, soldier, traveler : autobiographical sketches (1888)
Vereshchagin, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, 1842-1904 · New York : American Art Association · leaf 87
tom the next moment, I stood up and put one foot on the gunwale. I'hen came a violent crash under me and a blow on my hip — such a blow as might have come from an axe. I fell headlong, but got up again directly. The current carried us along very near to the Turkish bank, whence the Turks now fired… … SKRYDLOFF. but soon gave it up, as I saw the uselessness of the attempt. The current carried us a considerable distance away. In our rear was a line of trading vessels which were at anchor between the bank and the little island in the right arm of the river. On the left stretched the same island…
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