Armenian women of Alexandropol, 1910

The photograph shows Armenian women of the city of Alexandropol. According to the source, it was taken in 1910 by the photographer Dmitri Ermakov. At that time Alexandropol was one of the important cultural and commercial centres of the Caucasus.

There are 12 women and girls in the picture. Most of them wear traditional dress: long dark dresses, headdresses, white lace veils and necklaces, and many hold long strings of beads in their hands. The woman seated in the centre wears a dark headscarf, and in front two girls sit on the floor.