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View of main street in Bakhchisaray. Crimean Tatars in ox-driven wagons ride down the street while others walk or sit on the side of the street. Demidov notes that this main street is "lined with shops selling things Tatar have produced for two…
Tags: lithograph, livestock, Tatar culture, town, urban landscape
Crimean Tatar women walk with jugs of water toward a house in the distance. A pregnant woman in the foreground wears a head covering; the younger women wear skullcaps (tiubeteikas) - all but the bareheaded women with a jug balanced on her right…
Tags: domestic life, fountains, landscape, lithograph, Tatar culture, water, women
View of the Salgir river, not far from "the village of Mahmud Sultan" according to Bossoli's notes. The Salgir river is the longest river in Crimea.
Tags: landscape, lithograph, mountains, river, 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 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
Site of a durbe (Tatar mausoleum)
Tags: burial site, Tatar culture
Crimean Tatars on foot, on horseback, and in camel-driven wagons travel along a flat landscape with a large ruin in the background. According to Bossoli's notes, this is the ruin of a mosque.Bossoli also draws our attention to the "mounds of earth,…
Tags: camels, kurgans, landscape, lithograph, mosque, ruin, steppe, Tatar culture, travel
View of Crimean Tatar peasants's homes, which were often built into the sides of hills. A man and a small boy stand on a terrace looking into the distance. Demidov notes that the terrace is the most important part of the house because it serves many…
Tags: domestic life, lithograph, Tatar culture, Tatar house
Interior view of a Tatar school. Crimean Tatar children of all ages cluster in groups listening to their teachers or reading. Books lie on low tables and on the floor.
Tags: education, lithograph, school, Tatar culture
Tatar dervishes sit or stand in a circle at the Istrim Cami Mosque in Karasubazar.
18 October 1837
18 October 1837
Tags: Islam, lithograph, mosque, Sufism, Tatar culture