Nasrullah Khan (Bukhara)

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Nasrullah Khan, Emir of Bukhara from 1826 to 1860, a time when the Central Asian states were under pressure from the advance of Russia from the north and the British Empire from the south. He is reported to have succeeded to the throne after murdering his father, his elder brother "and, as an added measure of precaution, his three younger brothers". He is best known as the Emir who imprisoned and eventually executed in 1842 the British envoys Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly, and imprisoned but eventually released the Rev. Joseph Wolff who came in 1843 to seek news of them.

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Fitzroy Maclean: "A Person from England and Other Travellers", 1958

Joseph Wolff: "Narrative of a mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845, to ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly". London, J.W. Parker, 1845.