Hunted Through Central Asia
On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 August 2002
- ISBN 9780192803689
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 195x129x18 mm
- Weight 395 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 map 0
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Short description:
Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia in 1918. Declared 'the most dangerous counter-revolutionary at large in the Tashkent region' thus began an extraordinary catalogue of adventures with hair-breadth 'scapes and survival against all odds. Forced to live the life of a hunted animal his escape led him right across Central Asia, over the Himalayas to the plains of Hindustan.
MoreLong description:
'My position was uncomfortable. Here was I, in an absolutely exposed place, with Red Guards and commissars on every side. I had very little money left and no means of transport at all.'
Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia in 1918. He was betrayed to the Secret Police, who declared him 'the most dangerous counter-revolutionary at large in the Tashkent region'.
Thus began his extraordinary catalogue of adventures, 'a long and distant odyssey which would take me right across Central Asia . . . over the Himalayas to the plains of Hindustan'.
As he fled from Lenin's men, he was aided by the indigenous peoples of the region, the Kirghiz and the Sarts, whose language and culture had been steeped in since boyhood. For months he was forced to live the life of a hunted animal.
Peter Hopkirk has contributed a fascinating introduction to this tale of hair-breadth 'scapes and survival against all odds, as well as an epilogue which reveals Nazaroff's later fortunes.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Preface
Awaiting Execution
Release
Days of Wrath
Hiding among the Sarts
Persecution and alarms
Home life among the Sarts and Kirghiz
Hiding among the Kirghiz
Alone with nature
The white lady
The road to Semirechie
Pishpek
In Semirechie
Hiding in the hills
Danger again
Back on the trail
Safety in sight
Desolation
Despair
One last effort
At last!
Epilogue
Index
