•Mosque-church, Soudak 158
•'Almghrab' and Altar Screen in the Mosque-church, Soudak.. 159 •Gate of Genoese Fortress, Soudak........ 160
•Source of the Salghvr 173
•Monastery of St, Cosmas and St. Damian 175
Tatar Bride and Bridegroom. ' 186
View of Bachtchasarai, skowinu the Palace of the Khaks. to face 189
•Karaiu Cemetery, Valley of Jehoskaphat 198
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•Palatial Facade, Mangoup 203
•Tomb-stones, Mangoup aro
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Fragment of a Lamp, Olbiopolis 330
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CRIMEA AND TRANSCAUCASIA.
CHAPTER XXVII.
THIRTV-NINTH DAY.
Excursion to Olghyink— Reception l>y (he villogers — The Osset Bismarck— Schools— An Osset dwelling— Seclusion of women— A heavy meal— Conviviality of theOjsels — Their dances and songs— They hold the Greeks in derision— A young Osset lady— The sliiTup-cap — llie Ingoush — Their pagan superstitions — A Hungarian colonist — Russian bmdiords and tenants — Gennanj —Their influence.
When the Russians occupied the village where is now Vladykavkaz, the Ossets who removed from it established themselves in another locality ten miles away, which they called Zaloutch, after their old home; the Russians, however, have named it Olghynsk.
Tn the morning, a tdiynivttyk assdbyN parouidUny ' was sent by the Governor to accompany us to this village; the post-road is followed to the Kambyl^efHfa, called Houmaiek by the Ossets, a tributary of the Terek, whence a two miles' drive across country brought us to Olghynsk.
Our visit was evidently expected, for on entering the village we found about two hundred men drawn up in line two deep, the aponan occauonlike thepresent; w customs of the Ossets and Inguush.
This officer, an Osset by birth, was of great service obtained from him much information on the modeni t, Google starshynA, a consequential-looking man of about fifty, performing the honours with singular good tact and breeding. It was soon whispered to us that this 'elder' of the village was gifted with the genius of good government, was the promoter and manager of the schools, and had won for himself the distinction of being called the Osset Bismarck! Indeed, a tckyttivnyk at Vladykavkaz observed to us almost in the words of Alexander: ' He is a very clever man; were I not what I am, I would wish to be that starshyn^! '
We were conducted in the first place to the schools, where one hundred children, received to the age of fourteen, are taught to read and write the Russian language and the elements of arithmetic; they are also supplied with books in Osset, which have been prepared since the compilation of a vocabulary in that language by the late Doctor Sj'c^ren,' who assimilated it to the Persian, the language of Iran.
Zaloutch iii7«/ consists of 179 houses and a population of about 2,000, so that the number of children refused admission for want of funds is considerable, these schools being supported solely by the ' Society for the Restoration of Christianity in the Caucasus,' which grants 700 roubles annually. Notwithstanding such limited means the schools are well found in desk-tables and forms, and were in a creditably clean condition, the sexes being apart in separate houses under the direction of a master and mistress. After inspection, the children faced an image in a comer of the room and chanted a hymn, then turning to a portrait of the Emperor they sang Boge Tsaryd Hraii}, ' God defend the Tzar.'
' Otmiieht sfrachlthre, von Dr. Andr. Joh. Sjogren, St. Petersburg, 1844. 'Th- Osset may be classed as an ind^wndent member of the Aryan ramily oi languages,' says Prof. Max Muller, in Leclura on Iht ScUtue sf Language, London, 1S63.
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