Travel to Uzbekistan: Samarkand: Photo 10

A perhaps discouraging picture, showing the Ulug Beg masque in the 1890s.  The pishtaq is stripped and crumbling.  The courtyard has been reduced to a single story of rooms used for storage.  The Registan itself is a market square. 

This and other upcoming historic photographs of Samarkand are from the wall of the State Museum of the Cultural History of Uzbekistan, where they appear without credit.  A good collection of historic Samarkand photographs has been published, however, by Vitaly Naumkin as Caught in Time: Great Photographic Archives I: Samarkand (1992). If you have access to a really good library, or to interlibrary loan, see Hugues Krafft, A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902).

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