sniper-at-the-gates-of-heaven:

stunning photos of central asian life taken from 1909-1912

1. a boy sits in the courtyard of tillia-kari mosque, samarkand.

2. shackled prisoners.

3. a nomadic kirghiz family on the golodnaia steppe.

4. isfandiyar jurji bahadur, khan of khorezm.

5. a group of women from dagestan.

6. the emir of bukhara, alim khan, 1911.

7. sart woman in paranja, samarkand.

8. a kebab house in samarkand.

9. students sit with their teacher in a samarkand madrasa.

10. worshippers pose for a picture outside a samarkand mosque.