“The Great Game”

Vasily Vereshchagin(1842-1904)

Opium Eaters, 1868

Dervishes

Sale of a Child Slave, 1872

Bacha Boy and his Admirers, 1868

Muslim Servant, 1883

Uzbekh Woman in Tashkent

Registan, Samarkand, 1870

Doors of Tamerlane, 1872

Bukharan Fighter, 1873

The Capture of Khiva (1873)

Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, c. 1910

Samarkand

Uzbekh Woman, Samarkand

Samarkand, Musicians Playing for a Dancing Bacha Boy

Jewish Students in Samarkand

Emir of Bukhara

Khan of Khiva

Kyrgyz Nomads

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Khiva, Uzbekistan

Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Kazakhstan

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Turkestan, Kazakhstan

Tajikistan

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan