Two "common Tatars" distribute alms as they exit the mosque. There is a mulla wearing a turban and a haji next to him - recognizable due to the white band. Among the mendicants there is a chapelet and another haji - "the rest are miserable Gypsies." Demidov also assures his readers that "theses images of charity without ostentation are common outside of mosques." (31)
17 August 1837
Creator:
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Source:
Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838)
Date:
1837
Rights:
Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, “Tatars Leaving the Mosque,” Town Planning on an Imperial Scale, accessed May 19, 2024, https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/document/2429.