Catalogue description [Khiva Papers]

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Details of RSAA/SC/S/RS/1
Reference: RSAA/SC/S/RS/1
Title: [Khiva Papers]
Description:

Various documents concerning the intervention of Sir Richmond Shakespear to secure the release of a large group of Russian prisoners from captivity at Khiva, Afghanistan, and their subsequent escort to Orenburg in 1840.

 

See also Shakespear's letter and statement to the editor of the Calcutta Review (RSAA/SC/S/RS/6/60), as well as other letters with accounts written by Shakespear at the time of the action.
Date: 1840-1911
Held by: Royal Society for Asian Affairs, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 11 files

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