. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 323 bakshish, 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-. 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, an
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 323 bakshish, 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-. 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
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