Mestscherakian Tatar woman, 18th century

Mestscherakian Tatar woman, 18th century. She wears a bonnet ornamented with glass beads and coins, long cords covered with silver or white iron plates. Femme Tartar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johann Gottlieb Georgi from J-B. Eyries La Russie: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Russes, - Russia: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Russians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries - (1767-1846) was a - French - geographer, author and translator

 geographer  russia 18th Century Coins Ethnography J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries Johann Gottlieb Georgi La Russie Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Russians Moeurs Et Usages Des Russes Ornament Translator

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