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, printed in St. Petersburg in 1776 for European readers of natural history and costume. Copperplate figures stand full-length on low hillocks, drawn in fine hatching: fur parkas, fringed and belted robes, hide boots, staffs, spears, and a shaman hung with metal pendants.





















