. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Mausoleum and Mosque of Shah Zindah. thanks, and to say that nowhere in the world could a visitingforeigner have pursued his way under happier conditions. Butthis reference to the club at Samarkand reminds me of a I have said, I knew nobody, and the club was the onlyplace in the foreign settlement where a decent meal could be , with my interpreter, a young Russian gentleman who ac-companied me everywhere, I made bold to call at the club, askfor the name of an
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Mausoleum and Mosque of Shah Zindah. thanks, and to say that nowhere in the world could a visitingforeigner have pursued his way under happier conditions. Butthis reference to the club at Samarkand reminds me of a I have said, I knew nobody, and the club was the onlyplace in the foreign settlement where a decent meal could be , with my interpreter, a young Russian gentleman who ac-companied me everywhere, I made bold to call at the club, askfor the name of any officer who happened to be present, and SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 337 when a lieutenant who was playing billiards came out, to ex-plain to him who I was and what was my plight, and to begthat I might be permitted to use the club during my short Interior of Shah Zindah, Samarkand. Like every Russian, he was the soul of courtesy when courte-ously approached, and he at once sought another officer on thepremises to be my supporter, and our two names were entered as 33^ ALL THE RUSSIAS guests on the spot. This is one example of many such acts offriendly politeness. Now for the story—which shows anotherside of foreign life in Russia. It was during the Boer War, whenthings were not going well for us in South Africa, and anti-British feeling ran very high in Russia and the newspapers servedup a daily hash of denunciations and lies manufactured in Brus-sels. Things reached such a pass at last that British Consuls, in
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