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TonyZa's avatar

I wonder when Kachenovsky visited Khiva because Pugachev's rebellion was 40 years prior to the publishing of this article and I doubt many slaves captured then would have been alive after so long.

The internet says he graduated college in 1789 and was editor of Vestnik of Europe after 1805 so I would guess the 1790's.

Prokudin-Gorsky's photos always blow my mind.

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Víctor Calleros's avatar

Sound really interesting. The frontiers of the Russian empire are such an exotic world that, though real of course, they have the mystique of a fictional world.

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Robert K Wright's avatar

If the book has as many editing errors as this sample, I don't want the hassle of trying to read it. Otherwise, the book sounds fascinating.

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Alexander's Cartographer's avatar

I reread it and I didn't see any errors, would you mind pointing some out for me? I can correct them

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TonyZa's avatar

I don't know what he is talking about. The only mistakes I found where in the part about work where at no 3 should be mortar and pestle not pedal and mortar and no 4 is a bit unclear.

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Alexander's Cartographer's avatar

Thank you! I missed that one entirely

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