Central Asia from Biblionne

This collection of photos includes depictions of views from Khiva, the capital of the Khanate of Khiva, and the palaces of the Khiva khans, including the alley near Nurullaboy Palace and the pool. Additionally, the collection features images with the traces of what might have been a prison, possibly for women along with their graves, the local people crossing the… Read more about this item

Gelatin silver print. Rare. The photograph captures a group of men before a baigue, which is one of the oldest and widely practiced forms of horse racing among Turkic people. Baigue involves riding across rugged terrains for long distances (in the past, ranging from 5–15 km and sometimes exceeding 50 km), where the rider's tactical skill plays a crucial role. Its… Read more about this item

This book, comprising two stories, was written by Dukenbai Doszhanov (1942-2013), a Kazakh writer, journalist, and editor. Probably, it was first published in Russian in 1974. The first story, Good Old Granddad Beknur, follows a young man on a journey across the vast steppe. Along the way, he stops at a solitary yurt and encounters an old shepherd whom he remembers… Read more about this item

Most likely, these photographs were taken by Yevgeny Pavlovsky (1884-1965), a prominent zoologist, entomologist, and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939). He is renowned for orchestrating numerous expeditions to Central Asia, the Transcaucasus, Crimea, and the Russian Far East, all with the purpose of studying endemic parasitic and transmissible diseases. Notably, in 1928, he journeyed to… Read more about this item

One of 5 000 copies printed. The collection of verses was created by a poet Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901-1957) in 1930, after his trip to Turkmenia (Turkmen SSR, Central Asia). The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1924. The Bolshevik's policy sparked a rebellion in Turkmenistan, and in 1927 the Soviets lost control of the republic. Only in 1932 the main… Read more about this item

In good condition, wear at the edges, small crack, owner's mark on the back side. Gelatin silver print.