European influence in Afghanistan has been present in the country since the Victorian era, when the competing imperial powers of Britain and Russia contested for control over Afghanistan as part of th
King Dost Mohammad Khan with one of his sons.
Ghazni in early 1800s.
Prince Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammad Khan.
Shah Shujah became the last Durrani ruler, who first reigned between 1803 and 1809, and again from 1839 to 1842.
Great Game
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The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet. The two colonial empires used military in
European influence in Afghanistan
…in the country since the Victorian era, when the competing imperial powers of Britain and Russia contested for control over Afghanistan as part of the Great Game. In 1782, George Forster, a civil servant of the East India Company, undertook a journey that began in Calcutta, Bengal and passed through Kashmir…
Silk and spice festival in modern-day Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Russians constructing the Trans-Caspian Railway, from the Black Sea across Merv to Herat and India, drawing by Charles Thomas Marvin (1854–1890)
General Mikhaïl Annenkov in Paris, 1891, supervisor of Russo-Indian railway operation
Siberian Cossack c. 1890s