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The book represents the publication of the complete photo collection (350 pictures) of the lieutenant Pavel Pavlovich Rodniy, compiled by him during the period of reconnaissance of the Pamir in 1901. The collection is the largest of all known domestic and foreign assemblies of the early photographs of the Pamirs and contains unique pictures fixing its natural landscapes, settlements, settlements, settlements. , the types of residents, monuments of antiquity, etc., considerable attention in the photo collection is given to materials on the history of the Pamir detachment, the highestor unit of the Russian imperial army - types of individual posts, group portraits of officers and lower ranks. The photo collection of P. P. Real is a valuable historical and cultural monument, an important visual source on the history of the Russian Imperial Army, the Turkestan Territory and Pamir, the English-Russian rivalry in Central Asia.
Compiled by M.K. Baskhanov, S. L. Shevelchinskaya