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Pre-Soviet Uzbekistan Captured In Perfect Color
These Photos are over 100 years old and shows how life was in Uzbekistan before the Soviets took power. Enjoy
A carpenter strips bark from fresh timber on a back road in Samarkand.
An Islamic shrine stands inside the Bahoutdin Architectural Complex on the outskirts of Bukhara. The heavily-restored shrine still stands.
A man pauses a moment from grilling meat over hot coals at a restaurant in Samarkand.
Locals soak up the winter sun in Samarkand.
Men pose outside an Islamic school in Samarkand.
A view over central Samarkand from Registan Square
An elderly man -- dressed like an ethnic Tajik -- holds a brace of game birds in Samarkand.
A woman in a burqa stands outside a residence in Samarkand.
Prokudin-Gorsky made three trips to what is now Uzbekistan but was then part of the Russian Empire.
Men sell medicinal products in Samarkand.
Men posing in central Samarkand.
Prokudin-Gorsky’s first trip to Central Asia was for the abortive 1907 attempt to record the solar eclipse, the second and third were in 1911 after he received backing from the tsar to photograph the Russian Empire.
A bureaucrat stands outside the emir's palace in Bukhara.
It’s unclear when the more than 200 photos Prokudin-Gorsky shot in Central Asia were taken, but photos like this -- of Bukhara's interior minister with a ceremonial sword, which required access to government buildings -- were probably made during the 1911 expeditions, when the photographer had a letter of recommendation from the tsar.
Machines spin thread inside a cotton mill, probably in Tashkent.
Two shackled prisoners from Bukhara’s notorious dungeon
The photo was taken just a few meters from the "bug pit" where two British officers were tortured before eventually being beheaded in 1842 by the emir of Bukhara.
Men are held in the "debtors prison" inside the Bukhara dungeon.
Bukharans who owed either taxes to the government or money to other people were held in the prison but allowed out to work until they had repaid their debts.
A building inside the emir's palace in Bukhara
A local historian told RFE/RL that the building was destroyed during the 1920 Soviet invasion of the ancient city.
Sunlight illuminates Samarkand’s Shah-i-Zinda Mosque, one of Samarkand’s most important cemeteries.
These Photos are over 100 years old and shows how life was in Uzbekistan before the Soviets took power. Enjoy
A carpenter strips bark from fresh timber on a back road in Samarkand.
An Islamic shrine stands inside the Bahoutdin Architectural Complex on the outskirts of Bukhara. The heavily-restored shrine still stands.
A man pauses a moment from grilling meat over hot coals at a restaurant in Samarkand.
Locals soak up the winter sun in Samarkand.
Men pose outside an Islamic school in Samarkand.
A view over central Samarkand from Registan Square
An elderly man -- dressed like an ethnic Tajik -- holds a brace of game birds in Samarkand.
A woman in a burqa stands outside a residence in Samarkand.
Prokudin-Gorsky made three trips to what is now Uzbekistan but was then part of the Russian Empire.
Men sell medicinal products in Samarkand.
Men posing in central Samarkand.
Prokudin-Gorsky’s first trip to Central Asia was for the abortive 1907 attempt to record the solar eclipse, the second and third were in 1911 after he received backing from the tsar to photograph the Russian Empire.
A bureaucrat stands outside the emir's palace in Bukhara.
It’s unclear when the more than 200 photos Prokudin-Gorsky shot in Central Asia were taken, but photos like this -- of Bukhara's interior minister with a ceremonial sword, which required access to government buildings -- were probably made during the 1911 expeditions, when the photographer had a letter of recommendation from the tsar.
Machines spin thread inside a cotton mill, probably in Tashkent.
Two shackled prisoners from Bukhara’s notorious dungeon
The photo was taken just a few meters from the "bug pit" where two British officers were tortured before eventually being beheaded in 1842 by the emir of Bukhara.
Men are held in the "debtors prison" inside the Bukhara dungeon.
Bukharans who owed either taxes to the government or money to other people were held in the prison but allowed out to work until they had repaid their debts.
A building inside the emir's palace in Bukhara
A local historian told RFE/RL that the building was destroyed during the 1920 Soviet invasion of the ancient city.
Sunlight illuminates Samarkand’s Shah-i-Zinda Mosque, one of Samarkand’s most important cemeteries.
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