Face and Profile: Photos of Kazakhs from 150 Years Ago
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In 1876, the III International Congress of Eastern Scholars was held in St. Petersburg. The Turkestan Governor-General Konstantin von Kaufman ordered a collection of photographs from the Tashkent photographer Kozlovsky, called "Types of peoples of Central Asia."
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The collection contains 168 photographs. The pictures were taken to show full face and profile.
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Several pictures are of Kazakhs. They are indicated as Kirghiz as the imperial authorities mistakenly called them.
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The Kyrgyz themselves appear in the collection under the name of Karakirgiz.
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Most pictures only indicate people's nationality and age. Only two Kazakhs signed to indicate which area they are from. They are a 26-year-old man from the vicinity of Tashkent and a 51-year-old man from the vicinity of Kuldzhi, a city that is now located in the Il-Kazakh Autonomous Region of China.
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The photographer's initials, V. F, have been preserved. His work allows us to see what these people looked like 150 years ago.
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