Thomas Allen interviewing General Kuropatkin at horse races between Cossacks and Turkmen, Ashkhabad vicinity, Turkmenistan, 1891

Item Overview

Title

Thomas Allen interviewing General Kuropatkin at horse races between Cossacks and Turkmen, Ashkhabad vicinity, Turkmenistan, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

November 1, 1891

Date

1891-11-01

Collection

Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Notes

Description

Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
This photograph appears with the caption "An Interview with General Kuropatkine at the Races Near Askabad" in the book by Thomas Allen and William Sachtleben, Across Asia on a Bicycle (1897), p. 111.
Photograph of Russian General A. N. Kuropatkin (center) seated in a chair on a dirt embankment attending horse races between Cossacks and Turkmen, flanked by ladies standing and holding parasols, as he is interviewed by Thomas Allen. An officer stands on the left.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: No. 4. Nov. 1, 1891. Allen interviewing General Kourapatkine [sic, Kuropatkin] at the races near Askabad between the Cossacks and Turcomans.
Handwritten on negative: 5201

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Kuropatkin, A. N. (Alekseĭ Nikolaevich), 1848-1925

Location

Turkmenistan--Ashkhabad

Longitude

37.936616

Latitude

58.370361

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Racing -- Iran -- Eshqabad
Bicycle touring -- Asia
Generals--Russian -- Turkmenistan -- Ashkhabad