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to Tabriz, and that M. dc Giers was to take his place at Bushire. In the mcan-
Persian Gulf diaries for the weeks ending while a Russian official named M.Ofseenko
23rd andjoih Sepicmbcr 1901. arrived at Bushire on the 17th September
1901. He called on the Resident, and stated that his appointment was that of
First Assistant to the Consul-General, who, he expected, would arrive shortly,
and added that in the meanwhile he would carry on the work of the Consulate-
General.
According to a newspaper report received from India Office, it appeared
that M. Korostovets was appinted Consul-
Secret E.( August 1902, No. 106.
General. M. de Geirs never took up the
appointment.
57. A Russian named Sevrian Yakolovitch Kassick'arrived during August
1901 at Bushire from Shiraz and Tehran.
Minirments rf Russian and Frenchmen in South­
ern Persia and in the Gulf. He was said to be a traveller representing
a glassware firm in Russia. At Bushire he stayed with Mr. Kachaturian, a
Persian Gulf diaries for the weeks ending 19th I\USSi'an Armenian Agent of Messrs.
August and 9th and 23rd September 1901. Mantuschoff, kerosene oil merchants of
Baku and Batoum. He left for Mohammerah on the 37th August. It was
latei reported from Mohammerah that he was returning to Tehran via Baghdad.
58. A Russian named Kyosky, said to be from Tehran with samples of
Persian Gulf diary for the week ending 9th china and glassware, arrived at Moham­
September 1901. merah from Bushire during August 1901.
Persian Gnlf diary for the week ending 16th 59. A French doctor named Crespin
September 1901, arrived at Bushire from Bombay on the
1 ith September 1901.
Persian Gnlf diary for the week ending 6th 60. Joseph Brasseur, “ Representant
January 190a. Voyageur de Maisons Francaises en
Perse,” arrived at Bushire on the 30th December 1901.
61. M. de Serebiannikoff, a Russian subject, visited Bahrein during January
Persian Gulf diary for the week ending aoth *902. He took numerous photographs of
January 190a. the place, and, according to his own state­
ment, was travelling for pleasure. He stated that he had just come through
Asiatic Turkey, and was on his way to visit India, Ceylon and China, and that
he proposed sending the records of his travels to a Russian paper.
62. M. Simon Vassilitch, a Russian trader from Bushire, arrived at Bandar
Abbas on the 30th January 1902, in the S.S. Kilwa, and was said to be on
Persian Gulf diaries for tbe weeks ending mth his way to Odessa. It was understood he
and 17th February 1902. was giving up business in the Gulf as
unproductive. From subsequent information received it appears that he left
Bushire under instructions from his head office at Moscow.
63. Nicolai Petrosoff and Arakel Sarkisyan, the Agents of the Russian
manufacturers of piece-goods who came to Bushire in 1901, left on the 18th
Persian Gulf diary for the week ending 31st March 1902 for Shiraz, having given the
March 1902. Agency to Mr. Zeytoon, an Armenian
Commission Agent.
Persian Gulf diary for tbe week coding 7th April 64. M. Sharoansky, the Russian doctor,
1902.
left Bushire in the Russian steamer Kor-
niloff on the 28th March 1902.
65. A Russian named Ritman arrived at Lingah during February 1902,
and was said to have disembarked from the Korniloff at Mohammerah,
Per»ian Gulf diaries for the weoio ending 10th, whence he proceeded to Ispahan. From
«7th. 24th and 3»t March .902. there he went down to Shiraz and
thence to Bushire. From Bushire he started for Lingah overland. He gave
himself out to be a merchant, but appeared to be a military officer. He left
Lingah for Bandar Abbas where he arrived on the 6th March and stayed with
Saiyid Suleiman, the Russian Commercial Agent. On his way to Bandar
Abbas he visited Bassidore, and is said to have taken notes of what he saw
there. He also went to Taft where he inspected the old fort and then went to
Kishm. He left Bandar Abbas on the 19th March for Kerman.