bout de papier, Volume 12, Issue No. 2, 1995
A visit to the ’stans of Central Asia
For many centuries Centrat Asia constituted the heart of the “Silk Road”, the most important path of commerce linking Asia with Europe.
Lever de soleil sur la steppe
Contrée mythique située sur la route
Witness to a Collapsing Empire
As diplomats, perhaps one last pilgrimage to the Kremlin or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have been more appropriate. But we chose to say good-bye to Russia in St. Petersburg at the Piscariovskaya Memorial to the victims of the 900-day siege…
