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Through Russian Central Asia

Chapter 2: List of Illustrations
By Stephen Graham
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A travel narrative recounts a summer journey across Central Asian regions under imperial administration, blending on-the-ground descriptions of Silk Road cities, desert landscapes, mountain steppes, and nomadic life with portraits of markets, mosques, and ordinary people. The author chronicles routes, encounters with settlers and pioneers, and the effects of irrigation and colonisation on local agriculture and towns, while describing rail and frontier zones. Interspersed are reflections on history, conquest, and social customs, photographic illustrations, and appendices that consider geopolitical relations and the broader imperial context.

List of Illustrations

The Tomb of Timour Photogravure Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
The Central Asian Railway: Nearing the Oxus 18
The Central Asian Desert 20
Bokhara: The Escort of a Magistrate 28
Outside One of the Most Famous of the Mosques 32
A Holiday at Samarkand: Boys of the Military School Playing among the Ruins of the Tomb of Tamerlane 36
Mohammedan Tombs and Ruins in the Youngest of the Russian Colonies 40
A Mohammedan Festival at Samarkand—The Hour of Prayer 48
Central Asian Jewesses 50
Fine-looking Sarts in Old Tashkent 56
Outside a German Shop in Old Tashkent 58
Tashkent: A Football Match at the College 60
Pleasant Country Outside Tashkent 64
Hearty Shepherds: All Kirghiz 66
The Russian Teacher: A Native School in Tashkent 68
A Kirghiz Grandmother: Vendor of Koumis 74
Russians and Kirghiz Living Side by Side at the Foot of the Mountains 76
A Tent of Lonely Nomads on a Summer Pasture in Central Asia 80
Sarts Selling Bread: The Lepeshka Stall 84
The Native Orchestra: See the Men with the Ten-foot Horns, “Trumpets of Jericho,” as the Russians Call Them 104
“Past the Ruins of Ancient Towers” 120
A Settled Kirghiz: One of the Characters of Pishpek 130
The Irrigated Desert—an Emblem of Russian Colonisation in Central Asia 136
The Shady Village Street—One Long Line of Willows and Poplars 152
The Cathedral of St. Sophia at Verney—After the Earthquake of 1887 158
Visitors at a Kirghiz Wedding 168
Chinese Praying-House at Djarkent 178
Lepers in a Frontier Town 180
A Patriarchal Kirghiz Family 186
Sheep-Shearing Outside the Tent Home 194
In Summer Pasture: Evening Outside the Kirghiz Tent 198
Four Wives of a Rich Kirghiz 205
At a Kirghiz Funeral 207
Kirghiz Praying 215
In the Altai: Kirghiz Tombs near Medvedka 222
Altaiska Stanitsa: View of Mount Bielukha 230
Mobilisation Day on the Altai: The Village Emptied of its Folk 232
Map of Route taken by Author 270