He lived and worked the width of Asia away from these unfortunates
locked in their zindan, a hole in the ground with a door and a adobe roof over it, described as a "traditional Central Asian prison" in the Library of Congress website devoted to the work of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who roamed pre-Revolutionary Russia in the first decade of the Twentieth Century.
And none of them were aware of these people, a family-mining operation in the Urals.Fascinating, lovely images more than a hundred years old, of a place and a time as unrecognizable and vanished as the dark side of the Moon. And yet, the same roof in Bukhara probably still roosts the same stork, or another so like it that the picture might have been taken yesterday rather than one hundred and three years ago.
Lovely, fascinating exhibit; well worth a moment to look.(h/t to Ed at Gin and Tacos for the link...)
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