The sculptural composition "Bashi-Bazouks" portraying two Turks with rifles in their hands, riding horses. (A Bashi-bazouk was a volunteer horse soldier, a guerrilla fighter in non-regular formations of Turkish cavalry. Bashi-Bazouks were notorious for their excesses and marauding to such a degree that the word Bashi-bazouk became a generic term to refer to a robber.) It is  a fragment of the composition "Bashi-Bazouks,  stealing  cattle from  Bulgarian peasants".

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