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Around the Black Sea / Asia Minor, Armenia, Caucasus, Circassia, Daghestan, the Crimea, Roumania

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By William Eleroy Curtis
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The author records a voyage around the Black Sea and visits port cities and inland regions in Asia Minor, Armenia, the Caucasus, Circassia, Daghestan, the Crimea, and Roumania, blending travel description with commentary on local customs, architecture, and landscape. He reports on urban life in places such as Trebizond, Tiflis, Odessa, and Sevastopol; examines infrastructure projects and railway concessions; assesses the Caspian oil fields; recounts Armenian persecutions and the massacres of 1909; surveys missionary, educational, and humanitarian work including American schools and Robert College; and observes social change, including the emancipation of Turkish women, while offering portraits of regional peoples and historical sites such as Mount Ararat.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  PAGE
Map of the Black Sea Opposite title page
A Turk of Trebizond 10
Coffee peddler on our steamer 10
Group of Lazis, Armenia, ready for a dance 53
The city of Batoum 56
A Georgian beauty 88
A Georgian prince and his sons 88
Head dress of a Georgian lady 94
The native costume of Georgia 94
Section of the road in Dariel Pass 95
A Georgian gentleman and wife 100
A Georgian peasant 100
Principal club at Tiflis 106
Floating flour mill, Tiflis 110
A Georgian cavalier 114
Palace of the viceroy, Tiflis 120
Patriarch of the Georgian Church, Tiflis 126
A Georgian prince 126
Mount Ararat 131
Nakhikheban, founded by Noah on the slope of Ararat, the oldest town in the world 142
Entrance to the monastery of Etchmiadzin, Armenia 155
Kibitkas of the nomadic tribes 160
Persian quarter, Baku 213
A mosque of Baku 213
Temple of the fire worshippers near Baku 216
Domes of the Persian section of Baku 224
Prince Schamyl; “The Lion of Daghestan,” and his sons 228
City Hall, of Vladicaucasus 249
Type of the old-fashioned Circassian 252
A Circassian gentleman 257
Type of Circassian beauty 257
Gateway to Aloupka Palace, Crimea 266
Villa of the Czar at livadia, Crimea 284
Villa at Livadia in which Alexander III. died 290
Grafskaya Pristan, Monumental Landing, Sevastopol 294
Memorial Church, Sevastopol 294
The village of Balaklava 304
Chamber of Commerce, Odessa 328
Municipal Opera House, Odessa 332
View of the Bosphorus; ancient castle of Mohammed the Great in foreground 392
Robert College, on the Bosphorus 432