Gustav Krist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGustav Krist
Austrian writer
Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1894
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1937
Profession: orientalist
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Gustav Krist
- Gustav Krist (29 July 1894 – 1937) 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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