Identifier: boytravellersinr00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ were so much alike that the descriptions youhave already read will answer for them all. At Kizil Arvat we found anoasis containing altogether half a dozen square miles of tillable land, onwhich were several Turcoman villages, and a Russian town of perhaps athousand inhabitants. We call the town Russian from the flag that M^aves over it, ratherthan from the nationality of those who live in it. They are Russians, POPULATION OF KIZIL ARVAT. 475
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TURCOMAN FARM-YARD. Turcomans, Kirghese, Persians, Armenians, and Jews, and I dont knowliow many other races and kinds of people. There is a good deal of com-merce, mostly in the hands of Armenians and Russians, but much less thanwhen the railway terminated here. The business of Merv and the Penjdehdistrict is at the end of the railway ; in this respect the commerce of Cen-tral Asia is much like that of our far-western country, and changes its basewith each change of the means of transport. There is a fort at Kizil Arvat, and also a bazaar, and we are told thatAskabad is similarly provided. Whenever the Russians establish them- 476 TPIE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.

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