Bukhara fell to the Soviets under Mikhail Frunze in September 1920 after four day's fighting which left much of the town in ruins.
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Krist also mentions the construction by the Emir, using Austrian engineers, of a secret base at Dushanbe in the Tadjikistan Mountains.
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Krist also travelled with Red Cross delegations across Turkistan and in a bizarre episode entered the service of the Emir of Bukhara who was striving to re-establish his full independence in the collapse of the Russian Empire, and helped him set up a mint.
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En route he had been recaptured but jumped a prison-train and made his way via Merv, Northern Afghanistan and Meshed to Tabriz.
Gustav Krist (1894-1937), Austrian adventurer, prisoner-of-war, carpet-dealer and author
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