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I fell in love with my Cossack guide - now I'm determined to marry him; The descendant of Russian author Leo Tolstoy tells of the epic trek along the Silk Road which led to romance.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20030627
Author:Tolstoy, Alexandra

Byline: ALEXANDRA TOLSTOY

WHEN I first set eyes on Shamil Galimzyanov I wasn't at my best. I was suffering from amoebic dysentery and was distracted by the memory of Abbas, the dark, handsome guide who had just left us. It was four weeks into an eight-month trek following the Silk Road, the 5,000-mile route across central Asia to China that I was doing with three friends - Sophia (known as Mouse), Victoria (Wic) and Lucy - to raise money for Merlin, a charity that provides emergency relief for disaster zones.

It was April 1999 and our horses - and I - had collapsed in a ...

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