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NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH PETROV. Two Asian men, 1900. Creator: Nikolai Nikolaevich Petrov.

NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH PETROV. Two Asian men, 1900. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century and early 20th century by the famous revolutionary-populist and social and political activist N.A. Charushin (1851-1937) and by N. Petrov. Charushin began serving a hard labor sentence in the Transbaikal Territory in 1878. The materials in the collection illustrate aspects of Transbaikal history in this period, with a particular emphasis on the tea trade with China, which at that time was one of the main branches of the economy of the region. The photographs show various technological processes of growing and preparing tea, sections of trade routes, as well as views of China, Mongolia, Buryatia, and various towns and villages of Transbaikal, as well as images of local people of different ethnicities and nationalities. V.A. Obruchev Museum of Kyakhta Regional History and Folklife.
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Two Asian men, 1900. Creator: Nikolai Nikolaevich Petrov.
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Two Asian men, 1900. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century and early 20th century by the famous revolutionary-populist and social and political activist N.A. Charushin (1851-1937) and by N. Petrov. Charushin began serving a hard labor sentence in the Transbaikal Territory in 1878. The materials in the collection illustrate aspects of Transbaikal history in this period, with a particular emphasis on the tea trade with China, which at that time was one of the main branches of the economy of the region. The photographs show various technological processes of growing and preparing tea, sections of trade routes, as well as views of China, Mongolia, Buryatia, and various towns and villages of Transbaikal, as well as images of local people of different ethnicities and nationalities. V.A. Obruchev Museum of Kyakhta Regional History and Folklife
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3672 x 4960 px | 52.1 MB
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31.1 x 42.0 cm | 12.2 x 16.5 in (300 dpi)
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