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TonyZa's avatar

I wonder when Kachenovsky visited Khiva because Pugachev's rebellion was 40 years prior to the publishing of this article and I doubt many slaves captured then would have been alive after so long.

The internet says he graduated college in 1789 and was editor of Vestnik of Europe after 1805 so I would guess the 1790's.

Prokudin-Gorsky's photos always blow my mind.

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Víctor Calleros's avatar

Sound really interesting. The frontiers of the Russian empire are such an exotic world that, though real of course, they have the mystique of a fictional world.

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