Alexander Ivanovitch Iyas, officer in the Tsar’s Lithuanian Regiment, arrived in Persia in 1901. Through his years there he documented places, people, and events in these remarkable photographs for wh
This work documents the restoration of Qal’at Sem’an by Georges Tchalenko in the mid twentieth century. It is published for the first time with explanatory essays on the site and Tchalenko’s life and
