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Photograph: Old Cossack tower. Samoyede; Russians; Dolgans; Yakuts

Title:

Photograph: Old Cossack tower.

Ethnic groups:

Samoyede; Russians; Dolgans; Yakuts

Territory:

Yenisei province, Turukhansk Krai, city

Date:

1902

Dimensions:

17 x 12

Collectors-person:
Ostrovskih Petr Ye.
Number:

РЭМ 305-8

Photographer:
Annotation:

Wooden Cossack towers and other buildings of the 17th-18th century surviving in Siberia are important historic memorials of the period of exploration of a vast territory of this country by the Tsar’s men and pathbreakers. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva