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Dagestan islands in the Chirkei reservoir. Established in 1970.
alexskalin / IG
Caucasus. An observation post, 1880s.
A painting by Russian artist Ilya Zankovsky (1832-1919)
Svan types, Georgia.
From the book "Berichte über die biologisch-geographischen Untersuchungen in den Kaukasusländern" by Gustav Radde, Tiflis, 1866.
Abkhazian horseman, 1940.
Source: Archive of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.
"Khasukha Magomadov", 2019.
Artwork by the Chechen artist Rustam Yakhikhanov.
Khasukha Magomadov was the last Abrek in the USSR, a participant in the anti-Soviet uprising in the North Caucasus in 1939-1944. A native of the Chechen teip (clan) gattoi.
Illustrations by Kabardian artist Hamid Savkuev for V. Livanov's story "Agnia, Daughter of Agnia. A Tale of the Scythians".
Circassians Tshurukh-okua Tughuz, Hadji-okua Muhammad, Vordezav-okua Zepsh. 1840.
Illustration by James Stanislaus Bell (1797-1858), a British military intelligence officer who fought on the side of the Circassians in the Caucasian War (1817-1864)
1. Jules Verne. "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
2. Gustave Flaubert. "Madame Bovary.