Tilla-Kari Madrasah courtyard, Registan
1911 Samarkand, Uzbekistan
A boy in the courtyard of the Tilla-Kari Madrasah on the Registan. Early colour photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, ca. 1911. Source: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
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