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View of Crimean Tatar butcher and other merchants, smoking and talking in the street outside their stalls. Meat hangs from hooks at the butcher's stall and a pack of dogs sit opposite the merchants.

20 August 1837

Panorama of the bazaar (market) in Kerch. People sit or stand in groups; a man rides by on a horse; camels, oxen, dogs, chickens, ducks, and birds walk freely around the bazaar.

8 October 1837

Interior view of a cafe. Men sit around a table cross-legged smoking pipes. They have taken off their shoes.

18 October 1837

Tatar dervishes sit or stand in a circle at the Istrim Cami Mosque in Karasubazar.

18 October 1837

Crimean Tatar men pray inside the Istrim Cami mosque in Karasubazar.

19 October 1837

Interior view of a Tatar home near Kapsikhor. A large family is gathered around the father. Food and drink rest on the ground and on a low table. Small tapestries cover the floor. Plates, pitchers, and cloths are are displayed on a high shelf.

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Panorama of Alushta on Crimea's southern coast. In the foreground, a shepherd herds goats with the help of a few dogs. Crimean mountains (the high peak is Demirdzhi) and the Black Sea, complete with a vessel with furled sails, can be seen in the…

Crimean Tatar women walk with jugs of water toward a house in the distance. A pregnant woman in the foreground wears a head covering; the younger women wear skullcaps (tiubeteikas) - all but the bareheaded women with a jug balanced on her right…

Visit to the home of the rabbi of Chufut Kale. Favorite wife blushed agreeably at the entrance of the foreigners. Fascinated by the woman's elegant attire: Une robe de soie rayee dessinait une taille bien prise, que nul artifice etranger n'avait…

Tatar peasant homes were often built into the sides of hills. Here a man and a small boy stand on a terrace looking into the distance. Demidov trains his Orientalizing gaze on the interior and exterior of the "typical" Tatar home, describing the…