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“The Russo-Turkish Enigma - Where the Two Countries March Side by Side: A Consideration of the Caucasian Topography” | The Sphere - January 18, 1941 #caucasus

"#Circassia and the #Circassians" | The Penny Magazine. (April 14, 1838). #caucasus

#Sukhum: Big snow of 1911. In 1911, a natural disaster has occurred in #Abkhazia. Unprecedented heavy snow up to 2.5 m caused an enormous damage to the population and nature of the region. See https://t.co/d71LoF60i7

1. Map of the #Caucasus and the rout of the Scientific Mission by Ernest Chantre (1881).
2. The ethnographic map of the Caucasus, based partly on the researches of Ernest Chantre (1887).

Ernest Chantre (1843-1924) was a prominent French archaeologist and anthropologist.

1. #Armenian
2. #Georgian
3. #Kabardian (#Circassian) Prince

By Adolphe François Pannemaker
Belgian engraver (1822-1900).

Caucasian Types | Types du Caucase postcard collection. #caucasus

Tellingly, the legends on the postcards are in Russian and French, which designates them as being for the members of the elites of that time.

Caucasian Types | “Types du Caucase” postcard collection. #caucasus

1. #Lezgian
2. #Mingrelian
3. #Ossetians
4. #Karachays

Intourist was responsible for attracting, accommodating and escorting all foreign guests.

#Intourist was founded in 1929 by the People's Commissariat of Commerce, the People's Commissariat of Railways and the Sovtorgflot merchant fleet. Its name was a contraction of inostrannyj turist (foreign tourists).

1. #Georgian from Tiflis [#Tbilisi]
2. #Chechen naibs
3. #Cossack and #Chechen
4. Kuban #Cossacks