Inessa Kouteinikova, PhD, is an independent art and architecture historian and curator. She studies colonial Central Asia, Russian and International Orientalism, and the development of the photographic industries in Russian Turkestan, Caucasus and the Crimea from 1860–1917.

• Introduction 1. Photography on Our Side 2. Albumania a la Russe 3. Ethnographic Dissonance: Russia’s first colonial exhibitions 4. Craftsman of Ethnography: Samuil M. Dudin 5. The Art of Photographic Ethnography: Vasilii Vereshchagin 6. Perusing different Goals in Central Asia: Russian and Foreign explorers and their photographic interests Conclusion

Inessa Kouteinikova, PhD, is an independent art and architecture historian and curator. She studies colonial Central Asia, Russian and International Orientalism, and the development of the photographic industries in Russian Turkestan, Caucasus and the Crimea from 1860–1917.

• Introduction 1. Photography on Our Side 2. Albumania a la Russe 3. Ethnographic Dissonance: Russia’s first colonial exhibitions 4. Craftsman of Ethnography: Samuil M. Dudin 5. The Art of Photographic Ethnography: Vasilii Vereshchagin 6. Perusing different Goals in Central Asia: Russian and Foreign explorers and their photographic interests Conclusion

Inessa Kouteinikova, PhD, is an independent art and architecture historian and curator. She studies colonial Central Asia, Russian and International Orientalism, and the development of the photographic industries in Russian Turkestan, Caucasus and the Crimea from 1860–1917.

• Introduction 1. Photography on Our Side 2. Albumania a la Russe 3. Ethnographic Dissonance: Russia’s first colonial exhibitions 4. Craftsman of Ethnography: Samuil M. Dudin 5. The Art of Photographic Ethnography: Vasilii Vereshchagin 6. Perusing different Goals in Central Asia: Russian and Foreign explorers and their photographic interests Conclusion