Idiomatic or not?

[Richard Hargreaves]

It's the very last bit of this diary entry I'm unsure of...

So kam es dann auch, um nur größere Beispiele zu nennen, daß in Kaukasien eine Politik betrieben worden ist, die diktiert wurde von einer rührenden Romantik, die man in völliger Unkenntnis der wahren Zustände den Kosaken, Tscherkessen, Osseten, Karatscheiern usw. als Gloriola um die verlausten Schöpfe wand.

To give just a few of the bigger examples, a policy was pursued in the Caucasus which was dictated by pathetic romanticism, which we in complete ignorance of the real state of affairs affecting the Cossacks, Cherkessians, Ossetians and Karachays and so on...

[vkun]

To give just a few of the bigger examples, a policy was pursued in the Caucasus which was dictated by pathetic romanticism, which we in complete ignorance of the real state of affairs affecting the Cossacks, Cherkessians, Ossetians and Karachays and so on... wound around the lice-infested thatches (hair) as a gloriole.