The diverse people of the Russian Empire through the lens of George Kennan, 1870-1890

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In the 1860s, the Russian-American Telegraph Company set out to telegraphically connect the United States and Europe using lines running through the Bering Strait and Siberia. The failed expedition marked one of the first explorations of the vast Siberian wilderness, and George Kennan’s photographs capture the diverse subject of the Russian Empire. George Kennan (1845-1924) […]