Gustav Krist

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1894 – 1937

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Who was Gustav Krist?

Gustav Krist was an Austrian adventurer, prisoner-of-war, carpet-dealer and author. His accounts of unmonitored journeys, in a politically closed and tightly-controlled Russian, and then Soviet Central Asia, offer valuable historical testimonies of the still essentially Muslim region before Sovietization, and the conditions there of the Central Powers prisoners-of-war during and after the First World War.

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Born
Jul 29, 1894
Lived in
  • Vienna
Died
1937

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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