. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The Madrassa Shir Dar, Samarkand. crowded with stalls and shouting buyers and sellers, while highabove and all around the human ant-heap stand these vast archi-tectural splendours of an age long past, the note of heavenly bluedominating all. The city, flat and sombre, was ringed around. Q< Oi < < o <Q UJ SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 327 with gardens and vineyards. Around these was the bare, sandydesert, rolling up into the Alai range. Behind me was the peace-

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