Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie, oú, L'on expose leurs moeurs, religions, usages, habitations, habillemens et autres particulatités remarquables
Johann Gottlieb Georgi's French-language ethnographic survey of the peoples of the Russian empire, issued at St. Petersburg in 1776 for European readers interested in customs, religion and dress. Copperplate engravings show single figures standing full-length in open landscape, drawn to display fur caps, embroidered caftans, sashes, braided hair ornaments and boots, with fine hatching for fabric texture.
