Dmitri Yermakov

Dmitri Jermakov and family, 1896

Yermakov was born in Tiflis in 1846, the son of the Italian architect Luigi Caribaggio and a Georgian mother of Austrian descent. She remarried the Russian Ermakov whose surname her son Dmitry took. Trained as a military topographer, he took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).

As an adult, he operated photographic businesses in Tiflis. He traveled extensively as far as Iran and participated in several archaeological expeditions in the Caucasus, leaving a series of unique photographs. These photographs document the lifestyles, customs and costumes of Russian people in the late 19th-century forming an important ethnographic record of the region and its inhabitants. Thousands of his negatives are now kept at Georgian museums.[1]

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  Armenian noble woman from Tiflis, date unknown
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  Girls and Aged Woman Djeg Settlement, 1880
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  The House of Arshakuni, 1884-86
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  Princess Lazarev in Tatar costume, date unknown
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  A Jew with nuts, date unknown
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  Georgians with national clothes, date unknown
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  Kurd in the Russian service,
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  Shah Abbas mosque in Ganja, early 1900s
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  Rug Deal at the Tiflis Bazaar, date unknown
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  The Oriental Bath, 1880

D. Jermakov's photographic stamp. Tiflis.

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