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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Ignatieff on July 26, 2014, 03:49:31 PM
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Tonight Tiblisi! We've done over 3,000 miles since last Sunday
Blog update here: loekmongolrally2014.blogspot.co.uk
Tomorrow Baku. Lots of pics to make sure this post stays relevant (promise).
Thanks for everyone's continuing support
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Looking forward to seeing your pics of Baku - it's been many years since I was there, (2 trips for the lifting eqt company I worked for at the time).
Best of luck with your journey.
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Keep going Steve 8)
cheers
James
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Wll done chaps.
I bumped into the Beast today too, so quite fitting.
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Good God man! Seek help immediately
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Good luck Steve!
Keep going
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May the rally go well for you!
By the way, how can the enamel badges be purchased?
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Good God man! Seek help immediately
:D
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Death by pork! Lord, if it would grace you to let me go in such a manner...
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in the words of the immortal Jeremy Clarkson..."More Power", good luck!
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Death by pork! Lord, if it would grace you to let me go in such a manner...
Hahahahaha! lol lol lol
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in the words of the immortal Jeremy Clarkson..."More Power", good luck!
Yes!!!!!!
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We went to Baku old town today and walked some of the walls. Got images and will post when we return.
Lots of the walls have bullet holes.
On a more sober note we also went into the Shah's Palace; the courtyard is again riddled with bullet holes but according to the information plaque these were from the massacre of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenians in 1918. Some 12000 perished in the massacre.
It was chilling to think some of those poor souls died yards from where we were and their memorial were holes from the bullets that killed them.
Needless to say we did not take any image here out of respect.
We also climbed the Maiden Tower (so named because it used to be difficult to enter).
This tower is either 12thC or 7thC depending on who you believe.
It probably was originally a płace of worship and a site for astronomy but became included in the defences of Baku.
Will post images on return.
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Just reached Ashgabat in Turkmenistan. Weird place.
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Just reached Ashgabat in Turkmenistan. Weird place.
Not that weird if they have internet ;)
cheers
James
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Keep going strong, chaps!
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Just reached Ashgabat in Turkmenistan. Weird place.
Weird by normal people standards, or by our standards? ;D
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Can
you send any pictures?
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We did it.
Pictures to follow.....
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Well played the LoEK
Top gear, Top rally squad
:D :D :D
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Well done chaps, an adventure to be proud of 8)
cheers
James
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Thanks everyone for their support at every level.....
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.Great job,quite an accomplishment to finish that race. In those uniforms you weren't mistaken for a second coming of Dunsterforce were you?.Again Wow!
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Great job Fellows! I still think everything would have been improved by broom handled Mausers lol
Lon
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Well done chaps. :o :)
What makes it really foreign is if you compare the flags of neighbouring countries that fly on your pic, with the usual range of flags we often see on hostels and Youth Hostels etc at home 8)
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Well done. I've added a bit to your fund too.
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Well done ...
My congratulations gentlemen!
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First up, the walls of Baku and the Maiden Tower:
One of the gates
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Outside of main wall
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Another gate
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Ignatieff and bullet holes
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Yet another gate
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Inside the walls
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Inside tower
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Inside another tower
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The Maiden Tower (so called because it was hard to get into…honest). It could have been a temple and an astrology center but was eventually incorporated into the Caspian Sea side defence of the old town
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Excellent stuff. It looks like they've done a good job of tarting it up 8)
cheers
James
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Yes, nearly all of the historical sites have had restoration work done. Personally I think they did a superb job in Baku, Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand etc
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Do you have any idea on the age of the open backed towers? The walls look very thin. But there are post holes for floors - so they at least look in part original?
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Wow - it does look so much cleaner than my last visit years ago. And I'm not talking about the restoration either!.
Great trip lads, well done!!!
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Do you have any idea on the age of the open backed towers? The walls look very thin. But there are post holes for floors - so they at least look in part original?
AFAIK the part reconstuctions are accurate and original designs. Age is 11th-12thC.
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Thats interesting - so quite different style to what I am used to seeing in the UK, with very thick walls to defend against siege engines. Though with all the re-use its hard to know when the walls were built and if they were thickened later.
So these walls are probably more designed to protect against arrows rather than siege engines.
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Thats interesting - so quite different style to what I am used to seeing in the UK, with very thick walls to defend against siege engines. Though with all the re-use its hard to know when the walls were built and if they were thickened later.
So these walls are probably more designed to protect against arrows rather than siege engines.
The walls of Khiva and Bukhara are different; huge wedge shaped things tapering to the thin battlements at the top. The walls at Baku are about 10-12 feet thick with the battlement stuck on top.
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The walls of Khiva and Bukhara are different; huge wedge shaped things tapering to the thin battlements at the top. The walls at Baku are about 10-12 feet thick with the battlement stuck on top.
Please say you have pictures 8)
cheers
James
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Khiva, Uzbekistan
There is debate over the age of Khiva. Its first recorded in Arab sources in the 10thC but archaeologists insist on a 6thC date. Some say Noah’s son Shem discovered it in 2500BC.
It was an important silk road city and grew rich on the trade and it has a brutal history as a slave trading post sandwiched in between the vast Kyzylkum and Karakum deserts.
It also was a target and was destroyed by various invaders: Alexander the Great; the Arabs, led by Qutayba ibn Muslim; Genghis Khan & Amir Timur plus others.
However it was the capital of Khoresm for centuries.
Present day crenelated walls date to the 17thC.
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Some internal detail
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Various buildings inside the old city
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Stunning :o
cheers
James
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The walls of Bukhara.
On a much more impressive scale than Khiva, these were mostly built in the 17th century. The two photos near the bottom are very instructive. I took the pic of the ruined tower on my visit there in September last year, and the fully restored one this month. I think they've done a very good job
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Bukhara's infamous prison, where Connolly and Stoddart were kept
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this ruined section shows the internal filling
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The Arc, or winter palace of the Emir. Under this canopy bands would play popular Victorian melodies as prisoners were executed in the Rajistan square below
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Young Rory Langan on a Bactrian camel shows the scale of the walls.
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Massive bases that narrow dramatically towards the top
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this pic taken in September 2013
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the same tower in August 2014
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the largest minaret in Uzbekistan still shows the scarring from General Frunze's artillery ranging in 1920
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One of the things that was very noticeable about Siberia was the prevalence of really stunning silver birch trees. The trunks stood out for miles, almost white, and made for a very distinctive look. Anybody know if anyone does good ones in 28mm?
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Even more stunning :o
I have a link at home for some trees that might suit (at work today) but they would probably need the trunks painting afterwards. Did you take any photos of them?
cheers
James
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More Bukhara
Bukhara enters the written historical record as a satrapy of the Persian Empire in 500BC, however the Shahnama founds it in legend in the Pishdadian dynasty.
Whichever the Bukaran oasis had existed for millennia and the city was founded in an around it. It’s situated at the crossroads between Merv, Heart and Samarkand and became a major Silk Road city. The evident wealth of Bukhara would in many ways prove a curse, attracting the unwanted attentions of Alexander the Great in 329BC, then the subsequent invasions of the Seleucids, Graeco-Bactrians and the Kushans.
Later it fell to the Arabs and then became the heart of the Samanid Empire in the 9thC. The Karakhanids invaded in 999AD, the Karakhitai attacked in 1141, the Khorezmshah in 1206 and, most catastrophically of all, Genghis Khan and the Mongol horde rode into town in 1220. Every one of Bukhara's 30,000 troops was slaughtered, the city was torched, the civilian population killed or enslaved.
‘The Ark’ fortress: the city within a city that was the Emir’s Palace. Built on ancient foundations the first mention of it is in th 9thC AD. It’s age is undetermined but it was occupied C 500AD by local rulers.
It was badly damaged in the Russian assault in 1920.
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The white structure at the top allegedly held the Emir’s band who would play whilst multiple executions were performed in the area in front of the fortress.
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The audience chamber inside the Ark
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The white wall you see was there so that visitors could walk backwards from the presence of the Emir and when their backs touched the wall they were allowed to turn and leave.
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Lion sculpture (created from verbal descriptions of the beast) in the audience chamber, date unknown (by me).
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The ‘Bug Pit’ at the Zindon prison that housed Stoddart and Connolly before their executions in front of the Ark in 1842.
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The minaret that still bears the attentions of Russian Artillery during Frunze’s assault in 1920.
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Various other sites in the city
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After the Russian assault 1920
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Siberian Birch
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Steve
Could you put all the architectural pics etc onto a CD?
Possibly as an add on for the next book?
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Situated just outside the modern city of Samarkand on a plateau these are the remains of the original city of Marakanda that was taken by Alexander in 329BC. The walls themselves are older than the Alexandrian period.
Marakanda is the Greek name, the original name may have been derived from the Sogdian asmara, "stone", "rock", and Sogdian kand, "fort", "town".
Oddly this was not a protected site was accessible from a main road that runs through it.
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Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Archeological digs have revealed human habitation in and around Samarkand to 40000 years ago in the late paleolithic era. Mesolithic era settlements have been found in the modern suburbs of the city and the canals that supply the city with water were first constructed in the early iron age.
An actual date to pin the founding of the city on is difficult, some scholars believe it is as early as the 8th and 7thC BC.
It was one of the main cities of the Sogdians from the earliest days and by the time of the Achaemenid Persian dynasty the city was the capital of the Sogdian satrapy.
Alexander took it, and inflicted severe damage, in 329BC but it soon recovered. Taken by the Sassanians in AD260 then the Hepthalites, Gokturks, the Umayyads, Abbasids and Samanids.
After the fall of the Samanids c1000AD the city was ruled by a sucession of Turkic tribes including the Seljuks and the Khwarazm-Shahs.
The Mongols arrived in 1220 and pillaged the city, they returned again for a similar episode under Khan Baraq.
In 1365 there was a revolot against Mongol rule and in 1370 Timur made the city his capital.
Like all of the Uzbek cities massive resoration work has been carried out, often to critism from Western scholars. Well, I would rather that things were restored so that future generations could get a good impression of this incredible place. Sections have been left in their original decaying state so the visitor can compare and contrast.
Timur’s Mausoleum:
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Coronation stone:
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Timur’s black sarcophagus:
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Decoration in the main chamber (mostly painted paper mache which, I am told, is accurate):
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Registan Square, three Madrassas 15-17thC:
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Bibi-Khanym Mosque
This shows the state of the majority of the buildings before Soviet reconstruction took place c1969:
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often to critism from Western scholars.
But why?
Excellent pictures chaps 8)
cheers
James
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THX very much for the comprehensive reports and excellent pictures, and good luck with the continuing journey
But why?
well, without entering too much into detail, a rough sketch could be:
old style reconstruction of archaeological monuments used to go along the lines of reinstating the assumed appearance of the original building, without any regard to building materials or eventual later additions, repairs and modifications (this especially in the 19thC), and especially presenting a homogeneous uni-style appearance.
Modern style reconstruction focuses on pointing out the state of the monument as it is, including any modification that happened along the times, and making any reconstruction so that it is explicitely recognizable as such. This way the emulation focuses on the history of the monument as a whole and not on some aesthetic interpretation, and also aknowledges the fact that any old-style reconstruction can only be an interpretation of a fixed moment in time that might have never existed.
This way has of course to accept being criticized sometimes of constructing monstrous hybrids without aesthetic value.
either way it is difficult, and sensible heritage management nowadays attempt a middle way of preserving a historical aesthetic while simultaneously showing the whole constructive history.
Without having actually been there, but knowing soviet style approach and judging from the excellent pictures, this would be my explanation.
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The white structure at the top allegedly held the Emir’s band who would play whilst multiple executions were performed in the area in front of the fortress.
The white wall you see was there so that visitors could walk backwards from the presence of the Emir and when their backs touched the wall they were allowed to turn and leave.....
Top chap, a real Emir's Emir...always had great parties and knew how look after people. Ah them were the days ! ;D
Stunning shots there chaps. The colours are astonishing and I agree better to restore like this and grasp the scale and grandeur than plain stone and brick or ruins.
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well, without entering too much into detail, a rough sketch could be:
I know exactly why as I have to deal with with my work occasionally. Perhaps the sarcasm was missed.
cheers
James
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sorry, I missed it indeed...
on the other hand I was a bit surprised that You of all was asking this.... o_o
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The white structure at the top allegedly held the Emir’s band who would play whilst multiple executions were performed in the area in front of the fortress.
The white wall you see was there so that visitors could walk backwards from the presence of the Emir and when their backs touched the wall they were allowed to turn and leave.....
Top chap, a real Emir's Emir...always had great parties and knew how look after people. Ah them were the days ! ;D
Stunning shots there chaps. The colours are astonishing and I agree better to restore like this and grasp the scale and grandeur than plain stone and brick or ruins.
lol lol lol
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And here's a none-too-shabby clay model of the Bukhara minaret picked up from a street vendor for $6. Just needs a paint job and its ready to take a few shots from Frunzie-baby
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/photo-9_zpsb20dc7ac.jpg)
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Thats a bit nice. $6!!! You could have bought a suitcase full and flogged them on for a nice profit.
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And here's a none-too-shabby clay model of the Bukhara minaret picked up from a street vendor for $6. Just needs a paint job and its ready to take a few shots from Frunzie-baby
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/photo-9_zpsb20dc7ac.jpg)
Excellent! Can you bring back 300 for the fellas? :D
Thanks for the photos chaps
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"Honey, our next holiday is going to be to Uzbekistan."
"What, why?"
"Um, why not?"
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lol
a resin mold might be the simpler solution :D
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lol
a resin mold might be the simpler solution :D
A great idea
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I would buy one cast
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"Honey, our next holiday is going to be to Uzbekistan."
"What, why?"
"Um, why not?"
hahahahaha!
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A great idea
Agree. though I might have an 'agent' coming over from Bukhara in December. I'm sure I could convince her to load her suitcase.
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I would buy one cast
Me too, but I would have prefered to buy one of the original clay models.
Agree. though I might have an 'agent' coming over from Bukhara in December. I'm sure I could convince her to load her suitcase.
I'd love to get one, sadly it will be after Partisan. :?
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If it can be done, count me in boys ..
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Agree. though I might have an 'agent' coming over from Bukhara in December. I'm sure I could convince her to load her suitcase.
If so, can you reserve one for me?
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:o :o Oh, I would like one of those in any medium!