Emir Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan was the last emir of the Uzbek Manghit dynasty, rulers of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the Russian Empire from 1873
Autochrome of Alim Khan during exile in Afghanistan, taken by Frédéric Gadmer in 1928
Said Mir Mohammed Alim Khan mausoleum, Kabul, Afghanistan
Alim Khan's house in Saint Petersburg
Ark of Bukhara
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The Ark of Bukhara is a massive fortress located in the city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, that was initially built and occupied around the 5th century AD. The Ark's current structure began to develop durin
Entrance to the Ark fortress
Walls of the Ark
Entrance to the Ark fortress, photographed around 1907 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Plaza and Ark walls, with tourists lined up at the entrance