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Word: turkoman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took part, and there were Red sailors, too. Caucasian cavalry dashed by, their gleaming sabres at salute, their long black capes flowing behind; protection troops, wearing their round astrakhan caps, passed by, a little regiment of dwarfs, to the tune of the famed "Volga Boat song"; then came the Turkoman cavalry at a sharp trot, wearing their huge black shakos and great ponchos. Many of the civilian men and women wore weird costumes of the Middle Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Decennial | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

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