Tartar Labourers, 1855
Photograph by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Crimean War (1854-1856), 1855.
The British and French armies in the Crimea employed locals like the Crimean Tartars to carry out general labouring tasks. This, alongside many Moslem Tartars' sympathy with their Ottoman co-religonists, increased Russian government suspicion that the Crimean Tartars were collaborators and something of a 'fifth column'. In the aftermath of the conflict, many Crimean Tartars emigrated to escape Russian persecution, settling in nearby Ottoman territories.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1964-12-151-6-45
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1964-12-151-6-45
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