Identifier: russiancentralas02lans (find matches)
Title: Russian Central Asia : including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lansdell, Henry, 1841-1919 Lansdell, Henry, 1841-1919, inscriber. ins
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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in which I find No. 2., Translation of a Russian Letter from the Officer commanding thefortress of Nova Alexandroff, on the Caspian Sea, to the Envoy of theKhan Akhun, and to the Englishman Shakespear: Commandant at Nova Alexandroffski Fortress, 5th Sept., 1840,No. 1,097. On the 30th August inst. you delivered here from Khyva Russianprisoners, in number according to a detailed list, males, females, andchildren under age, four hundred and sixteen. When you collectedthem from amongst the Khyvan Turcomans, and others, you gave toeach one a ducat, and fifty pounds weight of flour. On their arrival atthis fortress, in answer to my inquiry, they expressed themselvesunanimously grateful to you as father and benefactor from the time oftheir being taken out of bondage, and during the journey from Khyvato this fortress, of which I shall make a report to the Governor-Generalof Orenbourg, Adjutant-General Peroffsky. (Signed) Likhoshsostoff, Commandant of Nova Alexandroffski, Colonel of Artillery.
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282 RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA. not so welcome at Khiva as at first, went to Khokand,and then to Bokhara, where he was put to death. Meanwhile the intercourse with Russia and Khivacontinued intermittently. With the returning CornetAitof was sent a Khivan envoy, and three othersfollowed, though not so far as the capital. With one ofthem Nikiforof came back to Khiva, but it was not till1842 that Colonel Danilevski succeeded in making thefirst treaty between the two countries, and whilst he wasat Khiva, Allah-Kuli-Khan died. He was succeededby his son Rahim Kuli for three years, and Rahim Kuliby Muhammad Amin, who was killed in 1855. Thissovereign was followed by Abdullah Khan for a year;then came Kutlug Murad Khan for three months, andnext his grand-uncle, Seid Muhammad Khan, who wasreigning when Vambery visited Khiva in 1863. Thismonarch was succeeded in 1865 by his son SeidMuhammad Rahim Khan, who is now on the throne,and whose reign has been a disastrous one for thekhanate.* The Russians h

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