"Even from the Cossack picket, the Himalayas were already visible": The Pamirs through the lens of Lieutenant Pavel Rodstvenny
"Even from the Cossack picket, the Himalayas were already visible": The Pamirs through the lens of Lieutenant Pavel Rodstvenny
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The book presents the publication of the complete photo collection (350 photographs) of Lieutenant Pavel Pavlovich Rodstvenny, compiled by him during the reconnaissance of the Pamirs in 1901. The collection is the largest of all known domestic and foreign collections of early photographs of the Pamirs and contains unique photographs recording its natural landscapes, populated areas, types of residents, ancient monuments, etc. Considerable attention in the photo collection is given to materials on the history of the Pamir detachment, the highest mountain unit of the Russian imperial army - views of individual posts, group portraits of officers and lower ranks. The photo collection of P. P. Rodstvenny is a valuable historical and cultural monument, an important visual source on the history of the Russian imperial army, the Turkestan region and the Pamirs, the Anglo-Russian rivalry in Central Asia. On June 29, 1901, Lieutenant Pavel Rodstvenny, adjutant to the commander of the Turkestan Military District, set out from Tashkent with a group of officers to reconnoiter the Pamirs. He had a very unusual assignment: to take photographs of the Great Pamir Highway, a strategically important communication line that linked Russian garrisons in Fergana with the outposts of the Pamir detachment and led to the borders of China, Afghanistan, and British India. For two months, Rodstvenny, a talented amateur photographer, tirelessly photographed areas, mountain passes, mountain passes, rivers — everything that determined the strategic importance of the Pamirs. At the same time, his camera also captured purely peaceful scenes — the daily life of the local population of the Pamirs, types of residents, types of housing, places of worship, and the remains of antiquities. As a result, he took over 350 amazing photographs, which formed the basis of the most extensive and valuable collection of visual images of the Pamirs of all known early photo collections of this remote and unique region of Central Asia. For a long time, the photo collection of Lieutenant Pavel Rodstvenny remained undeservedly forgotten and today returns to us in all its historical, cultural and aesthetic splendor.
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- All books in the series Russian military oriental studies