Word: kirghiz
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...Please tell all our acquaintances that we are alive. In the word "alive," everything is said. After 22 days of an infernal journey, they brought us to the depths of Asia, the Kirghiz Steppes. There is no tree in view, nor even any grass anywhere. They have changed our station three times already, and we have now arrived here after two days' travel by ox cart...
...husbands legs have given away. [Since this letter, he has died. He was 79 years old.] I have to do everything for him-dress him, wash him, feed him. . . . There is no doctor of pharmacy anywhere around. . . . There are only Kalmucks and Kirghiz people here. Some receive packages of food. If possible, send us some. . . . The most important things for us are some flour, sugar, tea and some sort of fats. We would be waiting for these packages as children wait for Father Christmas. Of course, we don't know whether they would ever reach...
...Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, White Russian S. S. R., Azerbaijan S. S. R., Georgian S. S. R., Armenian S. S. R., Turkomen S. S. R., Uzbek S. S. R., Tadzhik S. S. R., Kazak S. S. R., Kirghiz...
From the rugged Kirghiz steppes they came, from the Hi River basin, from the trackless plains of sprawling Russia and from Moscow. Bigwigs of the Soviet Union, turbanned Kazaks. soldiers of the Red Army, peasants and nomads all came to "Big Bill" Shatov's party. Big Bill had just completed the 1,475-mi. Turksib Railway, linking Siberia and Turkestan. Nothing was too good for him. Soviet orators praised his lurid past as a frequently jailed I. W. W. roustabout all over the U. S. As the senior U. S. Bolshevik in Russia, beaming Big Bill cried...
...Tien Shans in Central Asia where Russia gnaws into China. There on the border Ivan Pavlovitch Tokareff was, for this story, the misogynist commander of the Cossack police garrison. And there his boyish niece Fedossia went to visit him. They hunted in the deserts, chased and captured Kara-Kirghiz bandits, rescued a lecherous Russian fop from the underground Chinese desert city Tourfan, partook in a Kirghiz baiga (rodeo), found gold together, watched the Fouidoutoun of Souidoun dynamite himself, his family and his dwelling in despair over the Chinese revolution, and decided to marry...