3-065-561 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Interview between General Kaufmann and the Khan of Khiva, 1874. 'The military expedition of General Kaufmann, in the early part of last summer, to subdue the Tartar principality of Khiva, has been illustrated by several sketches engraved for this Journal...The Illustration we now present is one that shows the scene in the garden of the Khan's palace, after the surrender of Khiva, when the General had an interview with Mohammed Rechid Khan to arrange the terms of a treaty of peace...Past experience showing how easily Khiva can be made an asylum for Russian criminals advised the enactment of clause 16. Clause 17 prohibits slavery and the traffic in human beings...The unhappy Khivese are in a deplorable condition. Overloaded with taxes by the Khan, on the one hand, in order to satisfy the demands of the Russians, and robbed or murdered by the Turcomans, on the other, they are on the verge of despair, and loudly pray to Russia for protection. It is just possible that their prayers will not remain long unanswered, and that in a short time we shall hear of the annexation of Khiva to Russia'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.