Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shakh-Zinde) i mavzolei pri nei. Mechet (khanaka) Shakh-Zinde. Piupiter s Koranom pozhertvovannym [sic] bukharskim Emirom Nasrulloi
Summary
Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia︢, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 62.
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.
Samarkand is one of the oldest inhabited cities in Central Asia, prospering from its location on the trade route between China and the Mediterranean (Silk Road). Researchers of the Institute of Archeology of Samarkand argue for the existence of the city between the 8th and 7th centuries BC.
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Date
01/01/1865
Contributors
Bogaevskīĭ, N. V., photographer
Location
Zaaglyk, 39.73333, 66.86667
Source
Library of Congress
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