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. #Chechen children
2. Chechen aul [village]
3. #Pshav man
4. #Kabardian prince Magomet Nauruzov
“Caucasian Campaign-drawings” by Theodor Horschelt (1829 – 1871) - German painter, draftsman, and battle-painter.
1. #Cossacks
2. #Georgian policeman
3. Terek #Cossack
4. Hunter of the #Kabardian Regiment
“Visit of #Circassian Chiefs on board HMS Highflyer', 5 October 1855”. Watercolour by William Simpson (1857) in National Army Museum, London. #caucasus
Appeal UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) to the peoples of the #Caucasus. November 1943. The leaflet is printed in an underground printing house in Odessa.
Georgian, Circassian and Armenian Races - by Blackie, W.G. (Comprehensive Atlas & Geography Of The World, 1882). #caucasus #caucasusarchives