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1. Private of the Reserve Life-Guards of the Black Sea Cossack Regiment
2. Kalmyk
3. Nogai
4. Staff Officer of the Life-Guards Caucasian Mountain Squadron 
Illustrations by Jean-Victor Adam (1801 – 1866), French painter and lithographer (St Petersburg, 1830s).
1. Private of the Life-Guard - Caucasian Squadron
2. Circassian
3. Imeretian
4. Lezghin
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'Cossack tower' - from the magazine "World Illustration", by Lev Dmitriev-Kavkazsky (1849 - 1916).
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"Reading the Quran". The elder of the village Besleney Khusin Makhmudovich Gutyakulov (born 1942) reads the Koran in his house. Karachay-Cherkessia, Khabez district (2019). Photo by Andrei Smolnikov.
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1. A Guard from the Caucasian-Mountaineer (Gorsky) Squadron. Painted lithograph of the mid-19th century.
2. Imperial convoy: Circassians, Lezgins, and Cossacks. Mid-19th century.
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'Bivouac in the Caucasus' -- taken from page 11 of "Travels in the Western Caucasus: including a tour through Imeritia, Mingrelia, Turkey, Moldavia, Galicia, Silesia and Moravia, in 1836" (London, 1838), by Edmund Spencer (capt.). #Circassian
'Unhappy Baku' | The Graphic - September 16, 1905
"The fighting which began at Baku last week between the Armenians and Tartas resulted in widespread disturbances..."
'The Rising in the Caucasus Map Showing the Disturbed Region.'