Russian Chaman, Tobolsk, Siberia, Russia
This man is dressed with a shamanic style. He works like a ivory statuette sculptor in a shop indicated in the Lonely Planet. I get there and had opportunity to try ivory making. His assistant, a Russian woman, spoke a pretty correct French like many Russian people since they love French culture. I showed little bit my previous pictures to the man and immediately he asked me to make a portrait of him with the traditional clothes he put especially for the shot. I just installed him on the door path since it was the only place I could have a correct background for portraits. All Siberia lake places were inhabited side the Neolithic. In 3rd century the Huns migrations trough Centre Asia had big influence on migrations of others populations from centre Asia to Siberia. Later some Turkish civilizations migrated there and made the Khakasse Empire, but the north-eastern parts of Siberia kept in a kind of prehistorically lifestyle. Genghis Khan destroyed this Empire at around 1206, leading Siberia civilization to decline. 500 years later some Tatars (old Turkish population integrated in Genghis Khan conquests) migrated to east Siberia and made the Khanat of Siberia (Baikal and Yakutia and Bouriatia are out of it) but where fatly conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1580 (with help of Cossack, coming from Volga civilization). After Ivan the terrible, Russia continued to progress until Bering Strait since it was interested by fur. Cossack Semion Dejnev arrived in Behring Strait in 1648. The full HD movie of the journey can be seen here:
Size: 4000px × 6000px
Location: Tobolsk, Russia
Photo credit: © Alex Saurel / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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