Pierre and Emma Cochran Ponafidine
Pierre Ponafidine was an Imperial Russian diplomat,
who served as Secretary .; of Legation in Teheran,
acting Consul General in Tabriz, five years Consul in
Bagdad, five years Consul General in Meshed, two years on
a special mission to Tashkent and the Pamirs, and for the
last seven years Consul General in Constantinople.
I was enabled to visit the mosque of Ardabil and
to see the now famous carpet, parts of which are, I
believe, in the Kensington Museum. I was struck then
by its beauty, but had I foreseen the fabulous price
it brought years later, tattered as it was, I should
have made an effort to raise the money for buying it,
although I was then young and my pay but small.
Life in the Moslem East By Pierre Ponafidine, Emma
(Cochran) Ponafidine 1911, By Dodd, Mead And Company
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