Sergej Prokudin-Gorski: Muslime in Zentralasien um das Jahr 1910
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A cloth merchant sits in his stall in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) -
A boy sits in the court of Tillia-Kari mosque in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) -
Two prisoners are seen shackled together in chains -
A man and a woman from Dagestan pose together. The man can be seen carrying his sword -
Nomadic Kirghiz on the Golodnaia Steppe (present-day Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) -
Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva, now a part of modern Uzbekistan) seated outdoors in full uniform -
A group of women from Dagestan in traditional clothing -
The Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan (1880-1944), poses solemnly for his portrait, taken in 1911 shortly after his accession. As ruler of an autonomous city-state in Islamic Central Asia, the Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch, although Bukhara had been a vassal state of the Russian Empire since the mid-1800s. With the establishment of Soviet power in Bukhara in 1920, the Emir fled to Afghanistan where he died in 1944 -
A Sart woman in purdah in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Until the Russian revolution of 1917, "Sart" was the name given to Uzbeks living in Kazakhstan -
A kebab house in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) -
A water-carrier in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) -
An elderly man carrying birds in the snow -
A bureaucrat in Bukhara poses for the camera -
A fruit seller sits in his market stall -
Shepherd pauses near a hillside, Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) -
Two men sit in a mosque in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) -
Students study with their teacher in a "madrassah" (religious school) in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) -
Students sit outside their "madrassah" (religious school) in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) -
A religious teacher with his two daughters -
Worshippers outside a mosque in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan)