Gallery: The Final Years of Pre-Soviet Russia, Captured in Glorious Color
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Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara, seated holding his sword.
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View of Saint Nil Stolbenskii Monastery on Svetlitsa island, Lake Seliger.
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A melon vendor in Samarkand.
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Three young women offer berries to visitors at their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River near the town of Kirillov.
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Mills in Ialutorovsk district of Tobolsk Province.
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inkhus Karlinskii. Eighty-four years old, Sixty-six years of service as supervisor of the Chernigov floodgate.
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General view of the Shakh-i Zindeh mosque, Samarkand.
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Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman or Kirgiz, standing on a carpet at the entrance to a yurt, dressed in traditional clothing and jewelry
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The icon of Mother of God-Odigitria in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin, Smolensk.
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Zindan (prison) in Central Asia, with inmates looking out through the bars and a guard with Russian rifle, uniform, and boots.
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Rafts on the Ladoga Canal in the city of Shlisselburg.
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Group of Greek workers harvesting tea.
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View of Tiflis from the grounds of Saint David Church
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Russian children sitting on the side of a hill near a church and bell tower in the countryside near White Lake, in the north of European Russia.
