1794 Pallas Engraving: Dress, Costume of Mishar Tatar Women
From: Voyages de Professeur Pallas, dans plusiers provinces de l'empire de
Russie, et dans l'asie septentrionale; traduits de'allemand par le cit.
Gauthier de la peyronie, Nouvelle edition, tome neuvieme (planches). A
Paris, Chex Maradan, Libraire, Rue de Cimittier Andre-Des-Arts.
Professor Pallas was a geographer, scientist and natural historian from
Germany. He based his drawings and maps of Russia, its people, and botany
on his travels during the years 1768 to 1774.
As a member of academic expeditions which traveled extensively throughout
the Russian empire, he explored the Zhiguli mountains and the south Urals,
the steppes of western Siberia and the Altay, Lake Baykal and the
mountains of Transbaikalia.
Darwin acknowledged Pallas as an influence on
his theory of evolution.
