In September, 1882, he was made second lieutenant of a caspian regiment and stationed at Kronstadt.
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
On many of these boats entire families lived, it being their only home; and wherever freight was to be transported thither they went: whether it was towards the Ural Mountains or the caspian Sea, it was all the same to them.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
He first trod the land of Media, and his successes were felt beyond Media as far as the southern shore of the caspian Sea and East Iran.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker