. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. e, andthat known as Tila Kari, or the Golden, from the gold platingwith which it was once covered, on the north. To their splendour,as shown in my illustrations, must be added the effect of colour,for their fagades are built of coloured tiles, among which the un-equalled blue of Persia predominates. These facades are flankedwith minarets of extreme grace but curiously out of the per-pendicular, while within, the courtyard is surrounded with twostoreys of class-rooms and stu
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. e, andthat known as Tila Kari, or the Golden, from the gold platingwith which it was once covered, on the north. To their splendour,as shown in my illustrations, must be added the effect of colour,for their fagades are built of coloured tiles, among which the un-equalled blue of Persia predominates. These facades are flankedwith minarets of extreme grace but curiously out of the per-pendicular, while within, the courtyard is surrounded with twostoreys of class-rooms and students apartments. Foreigners arenot welcomed here, but I managed to make friends with the pro-fessors of one of these colleges, and after a theological discus-sion of the prohibition in the Koran of making pictures of thefaithful, to take this photograph of a group of them. A young student of the madrassa, with the Orientals eye forbakshish, volunteered to take me up to the roof, and the view ofthe city, combined with the recollection of its marvellous past,held me long entranced. Below was the crowded, noisy, many-. SAMARKAND AND BEYOND S^S coloured market-place, enclosed by the great buildings, still mag-nificent in their partial ruin—the noblest public square in theworld, in Lord Curzons opinion. Beyond them the glorious
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