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,” The Imperiia Project: Map Gallery Site, accessed March 4, 2026, https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/document/2429.
