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Karaite woman with children. Crimean Karaites are an ethnic group derived from Turkic-speaking followers of Karaism found in in Eastern Europe. Karaism is a denomination of judaism. Demidov notes that on a visit to the home of the rabbi of Chufut…
Tags: domestic life, lithograph, Tatar culture
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,…
Tags: Islam, lithograph, mosque, Tatar culture
A Crimean Tatar family travels on horseback and on foot near Yalta. Women in burkas carry infants in their laps. Demidov writes that "throughout the summer season, the influx of wealthy people who inhabit the southern coast of Crimea offers farmers a…
Tags: Islam, lithograph, Tatar culture, travel
View of Russian soldiers resting at the side of the road. In peacetime, Russian soldiers were tasked with public works projects. This group was building the road between Yalta and Alupka.
12 August 1837
12 August 1837
Tags: lithograph, mountains, oxen, Russian military, tree-felling
View of Count Mikhail Vorontsov's palace in the distance with Crimean Tatar men gathered in a circle in the foreground. According to Demidov, the (coastal) region around Alupka, "washed in sunlight and bathed by the sea," was quite the fashionable…
Tags: castle, landscape, lithograph, sea, southern coast, Tatar culture
Chromolithograph of the "Palace of Orianda" designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 – 1841).
Tags: architecture, landscape, lithograph, palace, sea, southern coast
Chromolithograph of a mosque built by Sultan Baybars (d. 1277) of Egypt. Baybars, one of the great Mamluk sultans, was likely a Kipchak Turk born in the Pontic steppe. He maintained close diplomatic ties with the Kipchak Khanate (also known as the…
Tags: architecture, burial site, gravestones, Islam, lithograph, mosque, ruin, Tatar culture
Chromolithograph of a crypt of an unknown khan. French title: "Ruins of the sepulchral cave of the khans".
Tags: burial site, crypt, lithograph, monument, ruin, Tatar culture
Chromolithograph. The French title of this lithograph ("view of the church at the foot of the mountain") makes no reference to the fact that this is, according to the Russian-language title, an interior view of the lower church. In Crimea, the most…
Tags: architecture, Greek church, lithograph, Orthodoxy, ruin
Chromolithograph of a "cave church" at Mangup. Churches and monasteries were often built into the sides of cliffs in the Crimean mountains.
Tags: altar, architecture, cave, Greek church, iconography, lithograph, Orthodoxy, ruin