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ISBN 92-3-103985-7 The end of the campaigns
FIG. 1. Tashkent. Monument of General von Kaufman. (Photo: © S. Gorshenina-Rapin.)
capitulate and cede Samarkand and Kattakurgan to Russia, while also having to make a
substantial financial contribution. The realist military painter, V. V. Vereshchagin
(1842–1905), who followed the advance of the Russian troops at the invitation of Gen-
eral von Kaufman, is a valuable witness to the battles fought during those years.
The district of Zerafshan was then established, with General Abramov at its head.
Katta-tura, the son of the emir of Bukhara, attempted an uprising as did the beg of Shahr-i
Sabz and some of the small semi-independent possessions of the upper Zerafshan (Falgar,
Matsha, Kshtut, Magian, and so on). What is known as the Shahr-i Sabz expedition (during
which Kitab and Chaar were subdued), and the expedition to Iskander-Kul in 1870 in Little
Bukhara, led to the total integration of these territories into the district of Zerafshan.
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