Soviet bard Vladimir Vysotsky in front of a mosque in Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz). North Ossetia, 1970s.

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'Cossack tower' - from the magazine "World Illustration", by Lev Dmitriev-Kavkazsky (1849 - 1916).

https://t.co/AEUoJdeNNz

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Shervashidze-Chachba was head of the Abkhazian delegation at congresses of mountain peoples of the Caucasus: in August 1917 in Dagestan Andi and in September 1917 in Vladikavkaz (he stands in the centre in the famous photo of delegates to the congress).

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Krasny Kavkaz (left) & Krasny Krym (right)

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🐦 Okhotnichʹi i promyslovyi͡a ptit͡sy evropeĭskoĭ Rossii i Kavkaza.
Moskva, I.N. Kushnerev, 1900-12.
https://t.co/GVophcJdF3

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'#Chechen'. A portrait of the engraver’s brother. By Lev Evgrafovich Dmitriev-Kavkazsky (1849-1916). The artist added ‘Kavkazsky’ to his surname, stemming from his nickame ‘Caucasian’, since he was born in the Caucasus, to differentiate himself from other artists named Dmitriev.

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Historical Illustration: soldiers standing trial before a jury court in Bromberg, Prussia, 20 January 1851.

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