You are about to behold the women of the Caucasus as they were seen by the photographers of the 19th
and 20th centuries. On display is the work both of the recognized Russian maestros of photography - F.Orden, D. Yermakov, N. Nikitin and of the ethnographers
who took the pictures for the purposes of scientific research. Here, the ethnic variety of the Caucasus is mirrored by pictures of the
Abazin,
Abkhaz,
Avartsy,
Aguly,
Azerbaijani,
Armenians,
Balkartsy,
Bezhtin,
Greeks,
Georgians,
Dargin,
Didoitsy,
Jews,
Ingush,
Nogai,
Laktsy,
Ossetians,
Rutultsy,
Udin,
Chechens.
The photographs from the Museum's Caucasus collection were displayed at the Women of the Caucasus in Pictures, Paintings, Graphics, Sculptures exhibition prepared by the regional public fund The World of the Caucasus.
The world of women of Caucasus is devoted a book Woman's Space in the Culture of the Caucasian Peoples by Yuri Karpov published in 2001.
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