Uzbekistan: Russian troops approaching Khiva across the 'Death Sands' to the wells of Adam-Krylgan. Oil on canvas painting by Nikolay Karazin (1842-1908), 1888. As soon as the Russian conquest of the Caucasus was completed in the late 1850s, the Russian Ministry of War began to send military forces against the Central Asian khanates. Three major population centres of the khanates - Tashkent, Bukhara, and Samarkand - were captured in 1865, 1867 and 1868, respectively. In 1868 the Khanate of Bukhara signed a treaty with Russia making Bukhara a Russian protectorate, while Khiva fell in 1873.

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