. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. A SAKT OF SAMARKAND coloured market-place, enclosed by the great buildings, stillmagnificent in their partial ruin—the noblest public square inthe world, in Lord Curzons opinion. Beyond them the gloriousdomes of the mausoleums of Timur, the man who built themall, and his wife, stood high above everything else. Time and 3^4 ALL THE RUSSIAS earthquakes have wrought destruction, the portals are broken,some of the minarets are without tops, square yards of tiles havefallen off, r
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. A SAKT OF SAMARKAND coloured market-place, enclosed by the great buildings, stillmagnificent in their partial ruin—the noblest public square inthe world, in Lord Curzons opinion. Beyond them the gloriousdomes of the mausoleums of Timur, the man who built themall, and his wife, stood high above everything else. Time and 3^4 ALL THE RUSSIAS earthquakes have wrought destruction, the portals are broken,some of the minarets are without tops, square yards of tiles havefallen off, rubbish-heaps have been formed of the chbiis, but stillthe magnificence of these great structures persists, and I know. THK MADRASSA SHIR DAR, SAMARKAND no more impressive and picturesque sight than this great market,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
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