The Wild East

Posted by TheGoodReverend in Arts & Crafts, Travel & Places on July 29, 2007 at 1:22 pm


Altay Russia

Between 1907 and 1914, Russian photographer Sergey Ivanovich Borisov went on an expedition across the Altay Mountains on the Russian-Mongolian frontier. The images he captured would later turn up as colorized post cards, many of which appear on the linked site.

To these American eyes, the photos bear an uncanny resemblance to century-old pictures of the Western United States, like portraits of Native Americans or John Muir trekking through Yosemite.

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3 comments to "The Wild East"

  1. Tim Giachetti
    July 29th, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    Next week, me and my bird are gettin DUB 22 inch hooves on this here bad hoopty! Cause that's how we roll in the Russian steppes!

  2. Tim Giachetti
    July 29th, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    His other ride is a shetland pony. Lowriders 4 Life!

  3. Alex
    July 30th, 2007 at 12:05 am

    I visited Mongolia a few years back and can tell you a lot of the nomadic people still live in the same kind of yurt.


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