In the summer before the Great War, Stephen Graham travelled from Vladikavkaz across the Caspian into Russian Turkestan. He describes wonderful Bokhara and the Muslim cities, the history of the tribes, the Russian conquest, Tashkent, and the hard lives of the peasant settlers pushed onto the steppe to plant new villages.
Perceptive travel writing on a vanished imperial frontier by a great English wanderer in Russia. Download the free EPUB.