Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes: Difference between revisions

{{HPB-CW-comment|Grodekoff, then a Colonel, later a Lieutenant-General of the Russian Imperial Army, was born at Elizavetgrad in 1943. He graduated from the Nicholas Academy of the General Staff and served on the General Staff in the Caucasus and in Turkestan. He took part in five expeditions in Hiva and Turkmenia, and was decorated with the medal of St. George, 4th degree, for the capture of Geok-Tepe. In 1883 he was Military Governor of the Sir-Darya District. It was in 1878 that Grodekoff made a very interesting journey from Samarkand through Mazir-i-Sherif, Meymene, Herat and Meshed, into Astrabad, which he described in his work mentioned above, and which was published in 1880.}}<ref>''Cherez Afganistan''. Putyeviye zapiski Generalnago Shtaba polkovnika N. I. Grodekova (Through Afghanistan. Travel Diaries of Colonel of General Staff, N. I. Grodekoff). It was published by the ''Novoye Vremya'' Publishers in St. Petersburg, and is a work of some 130 pages. The same year an English translation of it by C. Marvin (London: W. H. Allen & Co., pp. xx, 224) was published under the title of ''Colonel Grodekoff’s Ride from Samarkand to Herat'', etc.</ref>