A disaster that has been recorded even in the historical memories of tourists and advisers to foreign governments. As mentioned by Ian Smith in his notes, this year 24 thousand people died in Mashhad due to famine and cold. Traditions say that even the bodies of the dead, frozen in the cold air, lay unburied on the ground for weeks.As this employee of the border commission wrote in his travelogue, he did not see a baby or a small child anywhere along the streets and alleys where he walked that winter. Because almost all young children had died due to famine and cold. He writes somewhere in the narrative of this memory: “Besides not seeing children, I neither saw a smile on my face nor heard a song anywhere in Mashhad.