Women's Assembly Of The Caucasus

Online Exhibition

poetic by Ilia Chavchavadze (1837 - 1907)

The sleeping woman

I'm looking at you, You are sleeping quiet,

Your crystal breast Is making me dieing.

I hear it is moving

Nicely and gently,

And your heart is beating

With its honest ethics.

Your tender cheeks

Are red as a fire,

And lips made from ruby

Are covered by smile.

Your sleep is magnific

As vision of Heavens,

And shadows of Angels

Are covering its innocence.

Your breathing is pure

Like you and your soul too,

He is the happiest

Whom you belong to!

You are about to behold the women of the Caucasus as they were seen by the photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. On display is the work both of the recognized Russian maestros of photography - F.Orden, D. Yermakov, N. Nikitin and of the ethnographers who took the pictures for the purposes of scientific research. Here, the ethnic variety of the Caucasus is mirrored by pictures of the Abazin, Abkhaz, Avartsy, Aguly, Azerbaijani, Armenians, Balkartsy, Bezhtin, Greeks, Georgians, Dargin, Didoitsy, Jews, Ingush, Nogai, Laktsy, Ossetians, Rutultsy, Udin, Chechens.
The photographs from the Museum's Caucasus collection were displayed at the Women of the Caucasus in Pictures, Paintings, Graphics, Sculptures exhibition prepared by the regional public fund The World of the Caucasus.
The world of women of Caucasus is devoted a book Woman's Space in the Culture of the Caucasian Peoples by Yuri Karpov published in 2001.

Source: http://www.kunstkamera.ru/exhibition/kavkaz/eng/frame.html