Nasrullah Khan (Bukhara)

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The emir of Bukhara "one of the most violently deranged rulers the east has ever seen"

"One must be able to form to oneself an idea of the society of the Bukhara of the day, crippled by boundless hipocrosy, crass ignorance, and unscrupulous tyranny, and sunk in the swamp of immorality in order to imagine the mixture of cunning and stupidiy, of pride, of vain-glory and profligacy, of blind fanaticism and loathsome vices which make up the character of Nasrullah Khan"