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Identifier: allrussiastra00norm (find matches)
Title: All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Norman, Henry, 1858-1939 Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Subjects: Eastern question (Central Asia) Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Caucasus -- Description and travel Soviet Union -- Economic conditions Finland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 327 with gardens and vineyards. Around these was the bare, sandydesert, rolHng up into the Mai range. Behind me was the peace-
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INTKKIOK OF SHIR PAR, SAMARKAND ful courtyard, surrounded by its tiers of cells for the students,with trees, and fountains, and slowly stepping, white-turbaned 328 ALL THE RUSSIAS iiiolhilis. Once this was the metropolis of the world of Islam,the home of art and poetry, the site of everything most splendidthat Mohammedanism produced, the place of every Mussulmansdesire, the symbol of beauty and perfection. Hafiz of Shiraz be-lieved himself to be touching the high-water mark of hyperbolewhen he wrote— If that Turkish girl of Shiraz would give me her heart, I would give for one mole of her cheek Samarkand and Bokhara. But the Uzbegs were the Goths and Vandals of this Asian Rome—the Turks of this later Athens. Finally even Bokhara took itand held it till the Russians came conquering from Tashkent.Happily Timur built his monuments so solidly that neithermen nor time have destroyed them, and to-day they areassuredly still among the most glorious works of humanhands. Timur himself repos

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