'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.).

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Russian and Circassian Officers

The Illustrated Weekly News - May 4, 1867 p. 197.

https://t.co/PLE8yPzJAa

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Paintings by the Circassian artist Mukhamed Khakhandukov

mukhamedkhakhandukov / IG

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A Circassian horseman from the retinue of the Kabardian Prince Temryuk, 1550-1570s.

Reconstruction by O.V. Fedorov

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In the mid-19th century, among the products manufactured by the American company Amon L. Scoville were cosmetics for hair: "Circassian hair oil" and "Circassian hair restorative".

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The Circassian exile, artwork by Nadide Öçba

A woman takes care of her dead child to give him a proper burial in a foreign land.

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A Circassian warrior, 1862.

Artwork by Charles Parsons (1829-1897)

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Thanks a lot to my patrons for helping me pick one amongst my other options:

Pre-Culloden Highlander fighting the English.

Circassian in the russo-circassian war, somewhere between 1763 and 1864.

Underground Railroad agent protecting fleeing slaves in 1850 antebellum USA.

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Illustrations by Prince Grigory Gagarin (1810 - 1893)

1. Avar
2. Kazbulat - Noble Ossetian
3. Cossack guardsman from Mozdok
4. Circassian Soldier in the Imperial Army

'Costumes of the Caucasus.' (Costumes du Caucase) (1845). The full book at https://t.co/6WdP3dweiw

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Illustrations by Prince Grigory Gagarin (1810 - 1893) https://t.co/dV1JviYYdP

'Costumes of the Caucasus.' (Costumes du Caucase) (1845). The full book at https://t.co/6WdP3dweiw

1. Kabardian (Circassian)
2. A man from Karabakh
3. Lezgin man
4. A Woman from Shamakhi

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Slight edit of lyse’s traditional ala mhigan dress, I’d estimate because AM was based off of eastern turkey she’d probably be circassian or Kurdish (and her sleeves remind me of their folk dresses) so I wanted to see what she would look like with this tweak 🥰🥰

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'Circassian', Illustration by Jean Victor Adam (1801 – 1866) was a French painter and lithographer (St Petersburg, 1830s).

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1. Paperweight. Circassian In Ambush, Russia, 1871
2. Circassian Prince on Horseback Selling 2 Boys, Sir William Allen, 1814
3. Circassian priming powder flask. Horn, silver, gilding & niello. This is the pure Circassian aesthetic embodied. 1840-50s
4. Circassian rifle, 18-19th C

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Naguma [Nogmov] Shora (Нэгумэ Шорэ: 1794 - 1844), (Circassian) public figure and enlightener, philologist, poet and Alexander (1799 - 1837), Russian poet, playwright, and novelist.

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Kabardians of the Hatokshokua (Atazhukin; ХьэтIохъущыкъуэ) princely family, Valley, 1895.

https://t.co/FHhF7YhSY2

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Circassian cuisine! 😋

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Paintings by Franz Roubaud https://t.co/4IxqWEncCd

1 Horsemen.
2. near a mountain river
3. Franz Roubaud self-portrait
4. Storming of aul Achulgo [#Dagestan] on August 22, 1839

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from the Charity Evening (Yekaterinodar [Krasnodar] 1908). "Living Tableaux"

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