Emir of Bukhara
Photo shows the Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan (1880-1944), posing solemnly for his portrait, taken in 1911 shortly after his accession. As ruler of an autonomous city-state in Islamic Central Asia, the Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch, although since the mid-1800s Bukhara had been a vassal state of the Russian Empire. With the establishment of Soviet power in Bukhara in 1920, the Emir fled to Afghanistan where he died in 1944.
Medium: 1 negative (3 frames); glass, b&w, three-color separation; 24 x 9 cm.