. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. POKTAI, OK THK TOMR OF , SAMARKAND mighty conqueror lies beneath a single stone—one of the worldsgreatest dead, whose armies ranged victorious over more thaneven Russia rules to-day. Not less impressive than his own tomb, and probably morebeautiful before it fell into hopeless decay, is the mausoleum of 330 ALL THE RUSSIAS Bibi Khaniim, his wife, the daughter of the Emperor of traveller speaks of it as Ic plus bcdii luonumcnt qui aitjdiiiais etc clevc n la
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. POKTAI, OK THK TOMR OF , SAMARKAND mighty conqueror lies beneath a single stone—one of the worldsgreatest dead, whose armies ranged victorious over more thaneven Russia rules to-day. Not less impressive than his own tomb, and probably morebeautiful before it fell into hopeless decay, is the mausoleum of 330 ALL THE RUSSIAS Bibi Khaniim, his wife, the daughter of the Emperor of traveller speaks of it as Ic plus bcdii luonumcnt qui aitjdiiiais etc clevc n la mcinoirc dltiic fciiuuc adorcc,^ and if one. THE TOMB OF TAMERLANE, SAMARKAND did not remember the Taj Mahal at Agra one might accept theenthusiastic verdict. Its colossal and sweeping portal is now buta ruined arch, and its magnificent and towering dome, oncegorgeous in red and green and gold, is rent across and must SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 33^ soon fall. But time and ne<4lect have failed to make anyimpression upon one thing—the enormous marble lecternin the courtyard, which used, it is said, to hold a Koran ofcorresponding proportions read by Bibi Khanum herself froman upper window. Most impressive of all, however, to my way of thinking, is the
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