Rare Photography Of Russian Empire In 1910s

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  1. An empire? Looks more like a guy sitting by a building. I’d think a picture of an empire would be a map.

  2. This picture is anything but “rare”. One of the most famous works of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer of color photography.

    The man in the photo is Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan, the last emir (absolutist ruler) of Bukhara, then protectorate of the Russian Empire, nowadays part of Uzbekistan.

  3. I find these pictures interesting. The silk roads played such a vital role in the whole east /west trade for centuries.

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