Vassili Verestchagin : painter, soldier, traveler : autobiographical sketches (1888)
Vereshchagin, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, 1842-1904 · New York : American Art Association · leaf 99
85 THE PASSAGE OF THE BALKANS. … better claim to call myself a soldier than most of the officers of the detachment. Skobeleff, however, was above that sort of thing, and was always ready to follow sensible advice, from whomsoever it might come.
