Phototours over monuments of Samarkand.

“For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race” 

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Tours from Samarkand to Turkestan.

These photos are included in the ethnographical part of Turkestan album is a comprehensive study of Central Asia, followed in 1860-ies in the region, established the supremacy of the Russian Empire.
The album was created by order of General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1818 - 1882), the first Governor-General of Russian Turkestan, consists of four parts in six volumes: "archaeological Part" (two parts),
"Ethnographic part" (two parts), the "trades Part" (one part) and "historical Part" (one part). The main compiler of the album was Russian orientalist Aleksandr L. kun, who together with Nikolay Venediktovich Bogaevsky.
The album contains some 1,200 photographs, along with architectural plans, watercolor drawings, and maps. "Ethnographic part" includes Alo photo on 163 leaves. The photographs are representatives of different peoples of the region (pages 1 - 33), everyday life and rituals (pages 34 - 91), and the types of villages and cities, street vendors and commercial activities (pages 92 - 163).

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http://www.wdl.org