PHOTOGRAPHS
OF
DAILY LIFE IN KHEVSURETI
IN THE EARLY XXth CENTURY
COPIED
FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE
Peter the Great Museum
of Anthropology and Ethnography
OF THE
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
The following photographs of daily life in Khevsureti in the early twentieth century were copied from the "Ethnicity/peopels [sic.] of Caucasus/Georgians/Khevsurs" section of the photographic collections of the website of "Kunstkamera"—better known as the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (All images are © the Museum.)
The photographic collections of Peter the Great's Kunstkammer include some quite exceptional images of the peoples of the Caucasus, and there are 110 of Khevsureti alone.
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Image ref.: 2064-46/3692705 |
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Image ref.: 2064-11/3692621 |
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Image ref.: 3625-29/3612152 |
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Image ref.: 3625-28/3612150 |
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Image ref.: 3625-23/3612142 |
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Image ref.: 3625-26/3612146 |
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Image ref.: 3625-12/1-2/3612078 |
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Image ref.: 3625-14/3612124 |
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Image ref.: 3625-30/3612094 |
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Image ref.: 3625-25/3612144 |
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Image ref.: 3625-19/3612134
Title: Kobulo village: summer house
Dating: the first quarter of the 20th century
Collector: Panek Lidia Borisovna, ethnographer, Caucasus studies
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Image ref.: 3625-32/3612156 |
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Image ref.: 3625-22/3612086 |
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Image ref.: 3625-27/3612148 |
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Image ref.: 3625-11/3612120 |
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Image ref.: 3625-17/3612130
Title: "Samrewlo" women's house
Dating: the first quarter of the 20th century
Location: Georgia, Dushetsky, Shatil
Collector: Panek Lidia Borisovna, ethnographer, Caucasus studies
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Image ref.: 3625-13/3612122 |
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Image ref.: 3625-21/3612140 |
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Image ref.: 3625-20/3612138
Title: Kobulo village: traditional dwellings
Dating: the first quarter of the 20th century
Collector: Panek Lidia Borisovna, ethnographer, Caucasus studies
Image ref.: 121-63/3667527
Title: Group of women and children
Dating: mid-to-late 19th c.
Author: Nikitin D A
Image ref.: 121-58/3667515
Title: Group of men in traditional costumes
Dating: mid-to-late 19th c.
Author: Nikitin D A
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Image ref.: 121-59/3667517 |
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Image ref.: 1789-140/3710558
Title: Peasants working at a field
Dating: 1938
Location: Georgia, Kazbek, Gveleti [sic.; the archivist no doubt meant the village of Gveleti in Khevsureti]
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
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Image ref.: 1789-96/3710478 |
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Image ref.: 1789-138/3710554
Title: View of Buchukurty village
Dating: 1938
Location: Georgia, Dushetsky, Buchukurty
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
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Image ref.: 1789-54/3710569 |
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Image ref.: 1789-74/3710583 |
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Image ref.: 1789-47/3710440
Title: Woman at weaver's loom
Dating: 1890s [sic.]
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
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Image ref.: 1789-82/3710454 |
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Image ref.: 1789-22/3710508 |
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Image ref.: 1789-46/3710438
Title: [A still for making brandy]
Dating: 1890s [sic.; more likely 1930s]
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
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Image ref.: 1789-81/3710452 |
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Image ref.: 1789-40/3710436
Title: Peasants at [home]
Dating: 1890s [sic.; more likely 1930s]
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
Image ref.: 1789-69/3710581
Title: Young men and girls in national costumes
Dating: 1938
Location: Georgia, Kazbek, Gveleti [sic.; the archivist no doubt meant the village of Gveleti in Khevsureti]
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
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Image ref.: 1789-66/3710575 |
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Image ref.: 1789-64/3710573
Title: Woman at weaver's loom
Dating: 1938
Location: Georgia, Dushetsky, Barisakho
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
Image ref.: 1789-86/3710462
Title: Women [harvesting barley]
Dating: 1938
Location: Georgia, Dushetsky, Buchukurty
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
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Image ref.: 1789-95/3710476 |
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Image ref.: 1789-141/3710560 |
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Image ref.: 1789-93/3710474 |
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Image ref.: 1789-103/3710490
Title: Girl in national costume
Dating: 1938
Location: Georgia, Kazbek, Gveleti [sic.; the archivist no doubt meant the village of Gveleti in Khevsureti]
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
Image ref.: 1789-85/3710460
Title: Traditional dwelling
Dating: 1938
Location: Georgia, Dushetsky, Buchukurty
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
Image ref.: 1789-23/3710434
Title: Scene of swordcraft
Dating: 1890s [sic.; most likely the 1930s]
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
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Image ref.: 1789-48/3710442 |
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Image ref.: 1789-100/3710484 |
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Image ref.: 1789-68/3710579
Title: Peasants at barley harvest
Dating: 1938
Location: Georgia, Dushetsky, Barisakho
Collector: Shilling Evgani Mihailovich, expert in ethnography of Caucasus
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