Note 551 — Chapter III · The Struggle with the Khānates
Reading edition
500,000 roubles; equivalent to about £53,000. This ultimatum is omitted in Vambéry’s admirable description of the Samarkand campaign in the Monatsschrift für deutsche Litteratur, 1896. He alleges that Kauffman ignored the Amīr’s embassies, and fell unexpectedly on Samarkand when the preparation for the campaign was complete.