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# Travels Across Russia: 1889

**J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album**

Among the many 19th-century photograph albums in the Department of Image Collections at the National Gallery of Art is this large volume of images collected by an English traveler, J. Guthrie Watson (c. 1850–1913), which documents his 1889 journey across the Russian Empire from Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow to Crimea and the Caucasus. Images from this trip through what is now Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan include views of local people and numerous sites of historic importance. 

The arrangement and order of the photographs in the album (followed here) may suggest Guthrie’s route. It is possible he traveled on the Trans-Caspian Railway that follows the path of the Silk Road through much of western Central Asia. Its construction began in 1879 during the expansion of the Russian Empire and arrived in Uzbekistan in 1888, the year before Watson embarked on his trip. 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
This oversized album with J. Guthrie Watson’s initials in gilt on the cover was likely assembled upon his return to England. Although it is not certain how many of the views in this album were photographed by Watson himself, in 1899 he exhibited a collection of photographs at the Anthropological Institute in London. The following images are albumen prints, unless otherwise specified.

Cover

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
A member of the Conservative Club in London, Watson appears to have been a former military officer and was, in his words, “well acquainted with the Caucasus (particularly that portion known as Circassia).”

Hand-colored portrait of J. Guthrie Watson, the collector and possibly the photographer of some the images here, in ceremonial Cossack dress.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Saint Petersburg, RussiaAlexander Column, 1830–1834, designed by Auguste Ricard de Montferrand (1786–1858).

View of the monument to Alexander I (1777–1825) with the Winter Palace in background.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Tsarskoe Selo, RussiaCatherine Palace, 1748–1756, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (c. 1700–1771)

 

Tsarskoe Selo was an imperial residence south of Saint Petersburg.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Peterhof, RussiaEstate, Great Palace, 1714–1752, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli

Peterhof was an imperial residence in Saint Petersburg.

 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Tsarskoe Selo, RussiaCatherine Palace, 1748–1756, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli 

 

 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Warsaw, PolandŁazienki Palace, 1764–1795, designed by Domenico Merlini (b. 1730/1731–1797)

The Kingdom of Poland was subsumed into the Russian Empire in 1867. By the end of the 19th century, Warsaw had become the third-largest city of the empire after Saint Petersburg and Moscow. The Łazienki Palace (or Water Palace), originally built 1683–1689 from designs by Dutch-born Polish architect Tylman van Gameren, was entirely remodeled by Domenico Merlini in 1764–1795.

 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Saint Petersburg, RussiaCathedral of Saint Isaac, 1818–1858, designed by Auguste Ricard de Montferrand 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Saint Petersburg, RussiaCathedral of the Kazan Mother of God, 1801–1811, designed by Andrey Voronikhin (1759–1814) 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Saint Petersburg, Russia View of Nevsky Prospect with Anichkov Bridge, 1841–1842, rebuilt 1906–1908. Sculptures of *The Horse Tamers* by Pyotr Karlovich Klodt (1805–1867). View also shows Belosselsky-Belozersky Palace, 1747

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Saint Petersburg, Russia View of Nevsky Prospect 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, Russia Kremlin, panorama (heavily hand-colored)

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, Russia Kremlin, Cathedral of Christ the Savior (hand-colored) Designed 1832 by Konstantin Thon (1794–1881), built 1839–1860, demolished 1931, rebuilt 1994–2000

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, Russia Kremlin, Cathedral of Christ the Savior (hand-colored) Designed 1832 by Konstantin Thon (1794–1881), built 1839–1860, demolished 1931, rebuilt 1994–2000

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, RussiaCathedral of the Intercession on the Moat (Saint Basil) (hand-colored)Designed 1555–1561 by Barma (active c. 1555–1560) and Posnik Yakovlev (active c. 1550–1562)  

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, Russia Panorama, Red Square with the Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat, the Redeemer’s Gate, and monument to Minin and Pozharsky (hand-colored) 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, Russia Chambers of the Romanov Boyars (hand-colored)

This 17th-century birthplace of the founder of the Romanov dynasty, Tsar Michael I, was restored by order of Tsar Alexander II and opened as a museum in 1859.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sergiyev Posad, Russia Panorama, Trinity-Sergius Monastery, 15th–18th centuries (hand-colored lithograph)

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, RussiaKremlin, Spassky Tower, 1491; upper tower added 1624–1625Designed by Pietro Antonio Solari (c. 1440 or c. 1450–1493), Bazhen Ogurtsov (active first half 17th century),  and Christopher Galloway (active 1624–1645) 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, Russia Kremlin, Tsar Bell, casting begun 1735, damaged 1737, mounted on pedestal 1836

The Tsar Bell (Tsarsky Kolokol III or Royal Bell) resides on the grounds of Moscow’s Kremlin. The first two Tsar Bells were destroyed by fire; this third bell was also damaged in a fire, during casting. It remained in the casting pit for nearly a century until it was raised in 1836 by French architect Auguste Ricard de Montferrand and placed on a stone pedestal. It has never rung.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Moscow, Russia Panorama, Kremlin

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Probably Moscow, Russia View of a troika, the characteristically Russian three-horse carriage

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sergiyev Posad, Russia Panorama, Trinity-Sergius Monastery, 15th–18th centuries (colored lithograph)

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Unidentified monastery (colored lithograph)

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sergiyev Posad, Russia Savior-Bethany Monastery, Church of the Transfiguration (colored lithograph). 

This early 19th-century church was demolished by the Soviets, and rebuilt beginning 2007

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Kiev, UkrainePanorama, Monastery of the Caves, 11th and 18th centuries (colored lithograph)

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
*Saints of the**Pechersk Lavra* from the Monastery of the Caves, Kiev, Ukraine (chromolithograph) 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
*Dormition of the Virgin* from the Monastery of the Caves, Kiev, Ukraine (chromolithograph) 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Kiev, UkraineSaint Michael's Monastery, 12th century, rebuilt 18th century, demolished 1930s, reconstructed and reopened 1999 (colored lithograph)

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Silver shrine of Saint Barbara from Saint Michael's Monastery, Kiev, Ukraine 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
*Icon of Saint Michael* from Saint Michael's Monastery, Kiev, Ukraine

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Kiev, Ukraine Saint Michael's Monastery with police station and law courts at left

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Kiev, Ukraine Panorama, Monastery of the Caves, 11th and 18th centuries

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Kiev, Ukraine Cathedral of Saint Sophia, c. 1037–1060, with monument to Bohdan Khmelnitsky at extreme right (cyanotype)

Bohdan Khmelnytsky was a hetman (head of state) of the Zaporozhian Cossacks who liberated Kiev from Polish rule and is regarded as the father of the Ukraine. 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Kiev, Ukraine Saint Vladimir, late 19th century (cyanotype)

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia View from the Kremlin

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia View of upper town and Kremlin

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Panorama, Chinese rows of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, 1817–1825, designed by Auguste Ricard de Montferrand. The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior is visible in the center background.

The Nizhny Novgorod Fair succeeded the Makaryev Fair, an annual commercial event which attracted international goods from all over Central Asia, Persia, and India. From the mid-16th century, the fair was held July to September at the Makaryev Monastery on the Volga River. In 1816, the fairgrounds were destroyed by fire and the fair moved to Nizhny Novgorod. Although damaged during the revolution and closed in 1929, the fair was revived in 1990.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Odessa, UkrainePanorama   

Odessa was founded at the order of Russian Empress Catherine the Great in 1794. Its development was cultivated by Duc de Richelieu, who fled to Russia during the French Revolution and was appointed by Tsar Alexander I as the governor-general of the Crimea and governor of Odessa from 1803 to 1814.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Odessa, Ukraine Nicholas Boulevard with the monument to Pushkin

The great poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837) is considered the originator of modern Russian literature.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Odessa, UkraineOpera theater, 1884–1887, designed by G. Gelmer (active 1880s) and Ferdinand Fellner (1847–1916)  

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sevastopol, Ukraine Panorama

The Siege of Sevastopol (September 1854–September 1855) was the last major military action of the Crimean War.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sevastopol, Ukraine The British memorial complex with guard’s monument on Cathcart's Hill, 1854–1856

 

 

This cemetery commemorated the Allied dead from the Crimean War Siege of Sevastopol and was largely destroyed during World War II.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Yalta, UkrainePanorama with Hôtel de Russia

 

Yalta**,** on the north coast of the Black Sea in Crimea, became a popular resort for Russian nobility in the 19th century. Tsar Alexander III and later Nicholas II built palaces in the area, and literary luminaries Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov also resided there.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Balaclava, Ukraine Panorama

Balaclava was the site of the 1854 Crimean War battle that included the fateful “Charge of the Light Brigade,” immortalized in the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Novorossiysk, Russia Panorama, harbor

Ceded to Russia in 1829 after the Russo-Turkish War, the port of Novorossiysk was the capital of the Black Sea Governorate.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Novorossiysk, Russia Panorama of piers for loading grain

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Novorossiysk, Russia Panorama of ship struggling against the Bora, the violent wind off the Black Sea

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sukhum Kaleh, Georgia Panorama near Batum

By 1810, Russia claimed Sukhum Kaleh (Sukhumi) as a base in the northwest Caucasus.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Tbilisi, GeorgiaPanorama with floating water mills on Kura River (right foreground)

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Tbilisi, GeorgiaPanorama

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Tbilisi, GeorgiaPanorama

Georgia joined the Russian Empire in 1801, with Tbilisi (Tiflis) becoming a governorate. As improved transportation connected Tbilisi to other cities in the Caucasus and Russia, Tbilisi reemerged as a cultural center, and was often visited by Leo Tolstoy, Pushkin, and other artists and statesmen.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Borjomi, Georgia Panorama with the Grand Duke’s summer residence

After Georgia became part of the Russian Empire, this town southwest of Tbilisi, in the Lesser Caucasus, became a popular spa resort and home to Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich, the governor general of Transcaucasia.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Mount Elbrus, GeorgiaPanorama

Mount Elbrus is the highest peak in the Russian Caucasus, and the highest mountain in Europe.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Mount Kabarjin, Georgia Panorama of Kobi village
 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Mount Kazbek, Georgia Panorama

Mount Kazbek is highest peak of Eastern Georgia. 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Pyatigorsk, RussiaCathedral Square with statue of Lermontov

This Russian settlement in the Caucasus was founded in the late 18th century and by 1803 had become a popular mineral springs resort. The statue shown here is of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, the Russian writer, poet, and painter who had been exiled to serve in the Russian cavalry in the Caucasus and was killed in a duel here in Pyatigorsk in 1841.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Vladikavkaz, Russia Panorama

Russia established a fort at Vladikavkaz in the Caucasus in 1784. The city is now the capital of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Mount Ararat, Turkey Panorama with a regiment of Cossacks

Mount Ararat on the Turkey-Iran border is the highest peak in Turkey. Judeo-Christian tradition identifies the mountains of Ararat as the spot where Noah's ark came to rest.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Erzurum, Turkey Panorama with the Citadel

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Baku, Azerbaijan Panorama of town and port

In 1813, Persia ceded Baku and most of the Caucasus to Russia. Located on the Absheron Peninsula on the west side of the Caspian Sea, Baku today is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Baku, Azerbaijan View of the quai

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Baku, Azerbaijan Panorama of Black Town, showing petroleum refineries

The Baku area was rich in oil and, by the beginning of the 20th century, produced nearly half of the world’s supply.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Baku, Azerbaijan Panorama of a petroleum spout

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Russian lady in Circassian dress****

Circassia was a nation that spanned the east Black Sea coast between Crimea and the Caucasus. By 1864, this area had been overrun by the Russian Empire—the population decimated and the few survivors refugees in the Ottoman Empire.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Circassian man and woman

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Circassian lady

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Woman of Mingrelia

Mingrelia was a principality in western Georgia that was conquered by and subsumed into Russia in 1857.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Georgian woman

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Azerbaijani woman of a noble family from the Nakhchivan district

Although Watson mistakenly captions this photo as "Tartar Woman," this traditional *tuman*(skirt) and *kyuladzha* (outerwear) identify her as from the Nakhchivan region of Azerbaijan. The Nakhchivan Khanate came under Imperial Russian control in 1828, and today the area is the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, an enclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which shares borders with Armenia, Iran, and Turkey.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Armenian woman

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Georgian carriage 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
“King of Dagestan”

Dagestan (or Daghestan) in the north Caucasus came under Russian authority in 1803, although resistance to imperial authority continued sporadically throughout the 19th century. Today, Dagestan is a Russian republic.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan Panorama

In 1869, imperial Russia established a fort in Krasnovodsk. Since 1993 called Türkmenbaşy (or Turkmenbashi), this city on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea was the western terminus of the Trans-Caspian Railway and an important transportation center.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Uzun-Ada, Turkmenistan

This Caspian island seaport was the original starting point of the Trans-Caspian Railway (later moved to Krasnovodsk).

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Caravanserai

Ashgabat, or Ashkhabad**,** situated between the Kara Kum desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range, is the capital of Turkmenistan. Founded in 1881, the town was ceded to Russia by Persia after the Battle of Geok Tepe.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Ice house

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Merv, Turkmenistan Panorama, village of Baba Khan

 

 

Merv was a major oasis-city on the historic Silk Road. Located near today's Mary in Turkmenistan, it has been inhabited since the third millennium BC.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Merv, TurkmenistanPanorama

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Merv, Turkmenistan Panorama, bazaar

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
“Uzbek residence of Fairchaikh Tchylek”

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Khiva, Uzbekistan Itchan Kala, Kunya-Ark (Citadel), gate of the walled city, 1686–1888

Khiva (or Khorezm) became a quasi-independent protectorate of the Russian Empire after 1873. 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Khiva, Uzbekistan New Kiosk of the Khan

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Khiva, Uzbekistan Tash Khauli Palace, 1830–1838

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Khiva, UzbekistanKalta Minor minaret, 1851–1855

Begun under the rule of Mohammed Amin Khan and left unfinished upon his death, this minaret was intended to be twice as tall, tapering to a domed gallery. Kalta-Minor means “short minaret.”

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Bukhara, Uzbekistan Panorama

Bukhara (or Bokhara), on the Silk Road in Uzbekistan, has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture, and religion.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Bukhara, UzbekistanStreet scene

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Bukhara, Uzbekistan Citadel (Ark), Palace of the Emir, 16th century

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Khotoun, Uzbekistan Daya Fortress, between Khiva and Samarkand

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Darganata, Turkmenistan Fortress, between Khiva and Samarkand

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan View from the Citadel

Samarkand, on the Silk Road to China, is today the second-largest city in Uzbekistan. In the 14th century it was the capital of the empire of Timur (Tamerlane). Russia conquered the city in 1868 and by 1886 Samarkand became the capital of Russian Turkestan.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan Panorama, Saddler’s Street

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan Panorama

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan Madrasah Khodja Akhcar, 1632

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan Bibi-Khanym Mosque, 1399

 Bazaar Day.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan Cathedral, 19th century

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan Shah-i-Zinda Necropolis, 9th–14th centuries

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan Shah-i-Zinda Necropolis, viewed from the bazaar

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Probably near Samarkand, Uzbekistan Race course  

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
“Balachonpaky Village on the Orek Vay Tchylek.”

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Samarkand, Uzbekistan Khuja Khidr Mosque on the Tashkent Road 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sart village, probably in Uzbekistan 

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sart children

At the time this album was compiled, Russians used the term Sart to denote any of the settled peoples of Turkestan.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Sart outdoor dress

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Sart woman

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Teke Turkoman women

The Teke are one of the main Turkmen tribes. After the 1881 battle of Geok Tepe, in which the Teke were defeated, Turkmenistan became a part of the Russian Empire.

Travels Across Russia: 1889J. Guthrie Watson’s ‘A Journey Across Russia’ Album
Musicians of the Khan of Khiva

The Khans of Khiva descended from Genghis Khan. In 1873, the Khanate of Khiva was became a Russian protectorate.

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Turkoman Cavalry The renowned horsemen of Central Asia

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Ram fight

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