We've seen this collection of rare color photos by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii before, but this collection at The Big Picture includes a Google Maps link for each one as well: Russia in color, a century ago
What great photos! Thanks. They provide a way of perceiving the world of 100 years ago that never would have been possible through cracked b&w or sepia-toned photos. They make that time...and that place...come alive.
One of the posters at boston.com mentioned the appearance of the hair on the boy on the left - a near "buzz cut" with longer hair where the peyes would be - so he, they, might in fact be Jews.
What great photos! Thanks. They provide a way of perceiving the world of 100 years ago that never would have been possible through cracked b&w or sepia-toned photos. They make that time...and that place...come alive.
I would guess, and someone at boston.com also surmised that the people in the above color photo are Muslim and not Jews.
Interesting. What would be the indicators?
It was only a guess. They may in fact be Jews.
One of the posters at boston.com mentioned the appearance of the hair on the boy on the left - a near "buzz cut" with longer hair where the peyes would be - so he, they, might in fact be Jews.
Here is a better version of the picture.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Jewish_Children_with_their_Teacher_in_Samarkand.jpg
The main Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukharan_Jews