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Images from the Endgame
John Tchalenko
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Description for Images from the Endgame
Paperback. Features several photographs from a defining era of the Central Asian region, collected and annotated by a descendant of the photographer. The photographs provide us with a rare Russian point of view of the Great Game - the rivalry between Britain and Russia for the domination of Central Asia. Num Pages: 264 pages, Over 100 duotone Ill. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJC; AJC; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 277 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1380.
On 11 August 1913, the Tsar's consul in Persia, and officer in the Lithuanian Regiment, Alexander Iyas, photographed Mamed Amin-agha, head of the Kurdish Piran tribe, in front of a wall of fierce-looking warriors from Baiz-pasha's Mangur tribe. The photographer was thus marking a reconciliation he had successfully negotiated between the two warring tribes. 15 months later, in December 1914, Iyas was assassinated and beheaded by these tribesmen allied with Turkish troops. By an extraordinary series of coincidences, the negatives were recovered on the body of a Turkish officer killed by the Russians during the battle near Tabriz in January ... Read more
On 11 August 1913, the Tsar's consul in Persia, and officer in the Lithuanian Regiment, Alexander Iyas, photographed Mamed Amin-agha, head of the Kurdish Piran tribe, in front of a wall of fierce-looking warriors from Baiz-pasha's Mangur tribe. The photographer was thus marking a reconciliation he had successfully negotiated between the two warring tribes. 15 months later, in December 1914, Iyas was assassinated and beheaded by these tribesmen allied with Turkish troops. By an extraordinary series of coincidences, the negatives were recovered on the body of a Turkish officer killed by the Russians during the battle near Tabriz in January ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Saqi Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780863567353
SKU
V9780863567353
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About John Tchalenko
John Tchalenko travelled extensively in Iran as an earthquake geologist, where he first came across the traces of Alexander Iyas. On researching Foreign Office archives he discovered that Iyas had been his great-uncle. Tchalenko is currently Reader in Drawing and Cognition at the University of the Arts, London.
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