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Pochtovaia gon'ba v turkestanskom kraie
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Photograph shows a four-wheel cart in front of a yurt. An Asian man is driving the cart and two Russian soldiers stand behind it.
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 115.
A comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned by General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1818–82), the first governor-general of Russian Turkestan.
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Date
01/01/1865
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Library of Congress
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