Identifier: allrussiastra00norm (find matches)
Title: All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Norman, Henry, 1858-1939 Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Subjects: Eastern question (Central Asia) Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Caucasus -- Description and travel Soviet Union -- Economic conditions Finland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s wifes mausoleum, and one wonderful mosque. Theniadrassa, called Shir Dar, or the Lion-Bearing, from theLion and the Sun of Persia enamelled upon it, stands onthe eastern side of the great square, and that known as TilaKari, or the Golden, from the gold plating with which it wasonce covered, on the north. To their splendour, as shownin my illustrations, must be added the effect of colour, fortheir fafades are built of coloured tiles, among which theunequalled blue of Persia predominates. These fagades areflanked with minarets of extreme grace but curiously out ofthe perpendicular, while within, the courtyard is surroundedwith two storeys of class-rooms and students apartments.Foreigners are not welcomed here, but I managed to makefriends with the professors of one of these colleges, andafter a theological discussion of the prohibition in the Koranof making pictures of the faithful, to take this photograph ofa group of them. A young student of the niadrassa, with the Orientals eye for
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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-

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