About the book: 2019 / Lord Palmour, an orientalist aristocrat and part-time British intelligence agent, becomes the first European to penetrate the mysterious Kafiristan - a mountainous country created by the descendants of the ancient Bactrians. In a small novel, not reprinted since 1928, by the Soviet writer and diplomat N. Ravich, exoticism, eroticism and fantastic fiction are combined with the “Great Game” in Central Asia and descriptions of the war in Bukhara.