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The young Crimean bride in the centre and her sisters-in-law wear silk dresses with lace ruffs and cuffs. Heavy jewellery is much in evidence.

Man with a hookah, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1905-15. Photo by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky.

Portrait of a Tatar, 1872. Photo by Mikhail Bukar.

Later, with the spread of Islam among Tatars and Bashkirs and Christianity among Chuvashs, it became a secular holiday and a symbol of Tatarstan.

… the establishment of a Tatar museum was undertaken by Useyn (Hussein) Bodaninsky (1877-1938). Born the son of a Tatar teacher, he also graduated in the Tatar teacher-training college in Simferopol, that is, Akmescit. From 1895 to 1905 he learned in Moscow at the famous University of Art and Industry founded in 1825 by Baron Stroganov, then he spent a few years in Paris, becoming between 1911 and 1916 a renowned and sought-after interior designer and decorator in St. Petersburg. In 1916 he returned to the Crimea, where he was appointed director of the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchisaray. Here he founded the Tatar museum, still today working in the Khan’s Palace. In the early 1920s Bodaninsky and his colleagues were the first to collect Crimean Tatar ethnographic and historical material. They went on with such an effort, as if they knew they had not much time left. They carried out a long series of archaeological excavations in the cave cities inhabited by the Tatars in the 16th century and in the former cemeteries, and they systematically photographed the traditional Tatar villages, crafts, feasts and festive costumes. In their pictures we still recognize the main traits of modern Bakhchisaray, but without these photos we could no longer conceive the former life of this city, the cultural center of the Crimean Tatars. (x)

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