{"id":12715,"date":"2026-07-02T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12715"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:43:33","slug":"the-prince-the-courtesan-and-the-missing-diamonds-by-calum-macleod","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/events\/the-prince-the-courtesan-and-the-missing-diamonds-by-calum-macleod\/","title":{"rendered":"The prince, the courtesan and the missing diamonds by Calum MacLeod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please join us <\/span>or a talk by Calum MacLeod, author of the new travel book Uzbekistan \u2013 The Golden Road to Samarkand.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Front cover of the book, Uzbekistan \u2013 The Golden Road to Samarkand (2026) <\/em>by Calum MacLeod & Bradley Mayhew<\/p><\/div>\n

Calum will introduce the Tsar\u2019s scandalous nephew Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, and his triumphant exile in Tashkent, where his restored palace (1891) will soon open a window onto Russia\u2019s conquest of Central Asia. <\/span><\/p>\n

The talk will also spotlight other historical treasures in a country more open for travel and adventure than ever before.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When:\u00a0<\/b>Friday 25 September 2026, 18:00-19:30
\nWhere:\u00a0<\/b>The Old Library, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RF
\nLanguage:\u00a0<\/strong>English
\nFormat:<\/strong>\u00a0In-person & Online via Zoom
\nIn-person tickets:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a310 \u2014 Standard; \u00a37 \u2014 CamRuSS Members and Students
\nTickets on the door:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a311 \u2014 Standard; \u00a38 \u2014 CamRuSS Members and Students
\nZoom tickets:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a35 \u2013 Standard, free \u2013 CamRuSS Members
\nPlease book\u00a0via\u00a0AllEvents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Followed by a wine reception<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Calum MacLeod<\/p><\/div>\n

A graduate in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University, Calum has been exploring and enjoying Central Asia since 1989. Beijing-based for over two decades, he worked as China correspondent for The Times and The Independent, as Asia correspondent for USA Today, and co-wrote China Remembers, an oral history of the PRC, for Oxford University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/span><\/i> called Calum\u2019s book \u201cOne of those rare travel guides that is a joy to read whether or not you are planning a trip\u201d<\/em>. It is available now on Amazon <\/a><\/span>and will be sold at the talk.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Please join us or a talk by Calum MacLeod, author of the new travel book Uzbekistan \u2013 The Golden Road to Samarkand. Calum will introduce the Tsar\u2019s scandalous nephew Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, and his triumphant exile in Tashkent, where … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[501,500,498,64,503,504,62,497,246,499,502,496],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-12715","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-calum-macleod","tag-central-asia","tag-duke","tag-history","tag-nicholas-constantinovich","tag-romanov","tag-russia","tag-samarkand","tag-talk","tag-tashkent","tag-travel-book","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12722,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12715\/revisions\/12722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12715"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}