Note 547 — Chapter III · The Struggle with the Khānates

The chief was Colonel Von Struve, who afterwards attended Kauffman in a diplomatic capacity during his campaign against Khiva in 1873, and, at a later period of his career, was envoy of Japan. Among the other members was Colonel Glukhovsky, who was an ardent pioneer for Russia in these little-known tracts (see Schuyler’s Turkestan, ii. 354, 386), and published an interesting account of his mission in the Paris Geographical Society’s Bulletin for September 1868.