Excerpt from A Narrative of the Russian Military Expedition to Khiva: Under General Perofski in 1839; Translated From the Russian for the Foreign Department of the Government of India The rule of the Venetians on the Black Sea lasted about halfa century, and it is to this period that the celebrated travels of the brothers Paolo and others relate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.