Tatars Leaving the Mosque (Still Image)

Tatars Leaving the Mosque

Two "common Tatars" distribute alms to the poor as they exit the mosque. There is a mulla wearing a turban and a haji next to him - recognizable due to the white band. Among the mendicants there is a chapelet and another haji. According to Demidov, "the rest are miserable Gypsies." (31) He also writes that, "theses images of charity without ostentation are common outside of mosques."

17 August 1837

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838)

1837

Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library

56 cm

John Hay Library, Brown University