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Identifier: boytravellersinr00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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TURCOMAN FARM-YARD. Turcomans, Kirghese, Persians, Armenians, and Jews, and I dont knowliow many other races and kinds of people. There is a good deal of com-merce, mostly in the hands of Armenians and Russians, but much less thanwhen the railway terminated here. The business of Merv and the Penjdehdistrict is at the end of the railway ; in this respect the commerce of Cen-tral Asia is much like that of our far-western country, and changes its basewith each change of the means of transport. There is a fort at Kizil Arvat, and also a bazaar, and we are told thatAskabad is similarly provided. Whenever the Russians establish them- 476 TPIE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
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THE RETURN TO MIKHAILOVSK. 477 selves in any part of Turkestan, they build a fort and a bazaar side by side.Hardly has the army pitched its tents before the shops are opened and thenatives are invited to come in and trade. All who come are kindlytreated ; in a little time whatever hesitation the natives may have possessedis gone, and tiie cheapness of the goods on sale converts the former ene-mies into friends. There is no doubt that Russia thoroughly understandsthe Asiatic nature, and deals with it accordingly. Most of our return journey to Mikhailovsk was made in the night,which we did not specially regret, where so much of the route was throughthe uninteresting desert. We were told that when the railway was started,it was intended to make a narrow-gauge line that would be taken up as soonas the capture of Geok Tepe had been accomplished. But the undertakinghad not gone far before the plans were changed and a well-built railway,on the standard gauge of Russia, was the result. The li

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  • bookyear:1886
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Knox__Thomas_Wallace__1835_1896
  • booksubject:Soviet_Union____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Siberia__Russia_
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Harper___brothers
  • bookcontributor:New_York_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:483
  • bookcollection:newyorkpubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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