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Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Chtenie psalmov

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Photograph shows two Jewish men, wearing a prayer shawls, reading the Hebrew bible(?).

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 77.

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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01/01/1865
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