Chapter IX: Asiatic Possessions 83

NOTE 101

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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HIS EXCELLENCY A. S. YERMELOFF _Frontispiece_

A RUSSIAN DANCEUSE IN THE NATIONAL COSTUME
OF A TADJICK WOMAN OF BOKHARA 17

THE CHURCH OF RESURRECTION OF PETROGRAD 18

HIS EXCELLENCY, ACTING GOVERNOR-GENERAL
GALKIN OF WEST TURKESTAN 20

CATHEDRAL OF ST. BASIL 22

THE “TZAR KOLOKOL” OR MONARCH OF BELLS,
MOSCOW 24

VILLAGE AUTHORITIES IN SOUTH RUSSIA 28

TADJICK JUSTICE OF PEACE OF BOKHARA 30

AFGHAN “ISHAN” COLLECTING MONEY IN THE
NAME OF ALLAH 32

TURCOMANS 34

HEIR TO THE THRONE OF AFGHANISTAN 36

TYPICAL PEASANTS OF GREAT RUSSIA 38

TYPICAL “WHITE” RUSSIANS 40

A LITTLE RUSSIAN GIRL-MILKMAID OF KIEV 42

IVAN IVANOVITCH 44

PREPARING FOR THE “SHACHSE WACHSE” CELEBRATION 47

THE “SHACHSE WACHSE” CELEBRATION 48

THE “KREMLIN,” MOSCOW 50

REGISTAN SQUARE IN FRONT OF MECHET SHIR DOR
IN SAMARKAND 53

KARAVAN OF AFGHANS CROSSING THE AMU DARIA
RIVER AT KERKI 57

DR. C. C. YOUNG IN KARA KUM DESERT 60

HIS MAJESTY THE KHAN OF KHIVA, WEST TURKESTAN,
CENTRAL ASIA 64

KOMRAT REAL SCHOOL 71

MR. KONSTANTIN ALEKSANDROVITCH MIMI 72

A HEBREW WOMAN OF BOKHARA 76

“GORODOVOY”--RUSSIAN POLICEMAN 78

THE “PRISTAV”--DISTRICT CHIEF OF POLICE 80

ACTING GOVERNOR KARAUL BEGI 82

THE ATACHADJA MIRACHUR 82

TWO AFGHAN SOLDIERS 84

TREACHEROUS DAGHAS OF AFGHANISTAN 84

AUTHOR’S FATHER, MR. CHRISTIAN YOUNG, SR. 86

GURI-MIR, MAUSOLEUM OF TIMUR 88

KARAKUL EWE AND LAMB 90

THE FAMOUS “ARBA” OF WEST TURKESTAN 92

THE INHABITANTS OF KHIVA, WEST TURKESTAN 94

INTERIOR OF THE SUMMER PALACE OF THE EMIR 96

A TEKIN WEDDING 98

THE MINARET, THE TOWER OF DEATH, IN OLD
BOKHARA CITY 100

ENTRANCE TO OLD FORT OF OLD PALACE 102

KHIRGIZ WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN WEST TURKESTAN 106

HIGH-CLASS, VEILED, SART WOMAN 108