TY  - BOOK
TI  - Defense of the Samarkand citadel from June 1st through 8th, 1868 Drawn by the topographers Novoselov and NCO Kokhanov = Zashchita samarkandskoi tsitadeli s 1-go po 8-e Iiunia 1868 goda / 
AV  - DK854. D434 1872
PY  - 1868/// and 1872]
CY  - [Place of publication not identified] : 
PB  - [Publisher not identified], 
KW  - Forts & fortifications – Uzbekistan – 1860-1880
KW  - Drawings – Hand-colored – 1860-1880
KW  - Topographic maps – 1860-1880
KW  - Russia – History, Military – 1801-1917
KW  - Asia, Central – Description and travel
N1  - Russian language; “Defense of the Samarkand Citadel from June 1-8, 1868 : Samarkand (in present-day Uzbekistan) fell to Russian forces on May 1, 1868.  A month later, the city rose against the Russian garrison and, with great numbers of Samarkandians, other Bukharans, and Kazakhs, overwhelmed the citadel. General K.P. von Kaufman quickly marched his army to relieve the garrison at Samarkand and overcame the siege on June 8. The topographical map presented here shows the citadel at Samarkand and the area around it at the time of the local uprising against the Russian forces. The map is from the historical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned by General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1818–82), the first governor-general of Russian Turkestan, the album is in four parts spanning six volumes: “Archaeological Part” (two volumes); “Ethnographic Part” (two volumes); “Trades Part” (one volume); and “Historical Part” (one volume). The compiler of the first three parts was Russian Orientalist Aleksandr L. Kun, who was assisted by Nikolai V. Bogaevskii. Production of the album was completed in 1871–72. The fourth part was compiled by Mikhail Afrikanovich Terentʹev (born 1837), a Russian military officer, orientalist, linguist, and author who participated in the Russian expedition to Samarkand of 1867−68. The album contains some 1,200 photographs, along with architectural plans, watercolor drawings, and maps. The “Historical Part” documents Russian military activities between 1853 and 1871 with photographs and watercolor maps of major battles and sieges. The photographs include individual and group portraits of officials and military personnel. Most of the men portrayed were recipients of the Cross of Saint George, an honor conferred upon soldiers and sailors for bravery in battle. A few photographs at the beginning of the album depict officers awarded the Order of Saint George, an honor granted to senior Russian officers for superior merit in conducting military operations. Also shown are views of citadels, fortifications, cities and villages, churches, ruins, and monuments commemorating soldiers killed in battle. The album contains 211 images on 79 plates”—copied from website; The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item
UR  - https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_dk854_d434_1872
ER  -