Ethnic Diversity of the Russia Empire

People of the Russian Empire on the unique photographs of S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky.

Avars in Dagestan, April, 1904

Avars from Arakani settlement

Azerbaijani. They had been called “the Tatars of Baku” before the revolution

The whole photo

Armenians, 1912

Bashkir, 1910

Bashkir woman wearing a national costume

Belorussian woman

Greeks collecting tea, 1912

Georgians in holiday dresses

Georgian tomato seller, 1912

Jews: teacher and pupils in Samarkand, 1911

Cossack, 1911, Turkmenistan

Nomad Kazakhs, 1911

Karelians, 1916

Chinese. They were not rare in the Russian Empire too. Tea factory in Chakva.

Kirghiz

Hungry steppe of 1911

Kurd woman with children, 1912

Kurds of the Batumi region

Lezghin, Dagestan, 1904

Russians, 1909

Tajiks, 1911, Samarkand

Tatars, 1910, the Chelyabinsk region

Turks, 1912. Many of them lived in the Batumi region that became a part of Russia in 1878. They tried to live separately and didn’t want adopt anything strange from Russians hoping to return back.

Turkmen, 1911

Uzbeks, 1907, Samarkand

Ukrainian woman, Kursk province, 1904

Ukrainian woman, Kursk province

Finns, 1903

 

Source ; Englishrussia.com