Postcript added to the article North from Kabul & News from Tartary, 23 October 2013.
(12). In his 1963 book The Fate of Admiral Kolchak Peter Fleming included a dedication to the memory of PIOTR SERGEIVICH BORODISHIM a former sergeant in one the Siberian armies (under anti-Communist leader, Admiral Kolchak). "In 1935 he helped two young travellers on a difficult adventure; they last saw him 'riding back along the way we had come, hunched on his camel, eternally sucking at his long Chinese pipe' .. Two years later he was murdered by bandits."
Fleming's gallant endorsement is a fitting tribute.
The Fate of Admiral Kolchak (Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1963), former stock of Flint public library found in a bookstore in Wrexham market.
Just reading the last 100 pages of News from Tartary on the north shore of Oahu and ran across Fleming’s reference to Borodishin. Must have been earlier in the book, which I read a few months ago. Thanks for the explanation. … Good book!
Belated thankyou very much for taking the trouble to comment, Philip. It sounded like an idyllic place to be reading, though I did have to Google Oahu (my atlases are in the living room but I will look it up later) to see if it was somewhere in Central Asia itself. I’ve not yet got to any of the places Fleming writes about, yet, or to the Pacific ;-), though Uzbekistan in December felt quite exotic. Very best wishes and enjoyment on your next travels when this crisis is over. Kiron