This PowerPoint illustrates "the great game" imperialist rivalry between Russia and Great Britain for control of central Asia and also illustrates the multinational nature of the Russian Empire.

1. “ The Great Game”

9. Vasily Vereshchagin (1842-1904)

10. Opium Eaters , 1868

11. Dervishes

12. Sale of a Child Slave , 1872

13. Bacha Boy and his Admirers , 1868

14. Muslim Servant , 1883

15. Uzbekh Woman in Tashkent

16. Registan, Samarkand , 1870

17. Doors of Tamerlane , 1872

18. Bukharan Fighter , 1873

19. The Capture of Khiva (1873)

20. Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, c. 1910

21. Samarkand

22. Uzbekh Woman, Samarkand

23. Samarkand, Musicians Playing for a Dancing Bacha Boy

24. Jewish Students in Samarkand

25. Emir of Bukhara

26. Khan of Khiva

28. Kyrgyz Nomads

29. Samarkand, Uzbekistan

38. Khiva, Uzbekistan

39. Bukhara, Uzbekistan

40. Bukhara, Uzbekistan

41. Kazakhstan

45. Almaty, Kazakhstan

46. Turkestan, Kazakhstan

51. Tajikistan

58. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

59. Ashgabat, Turkmenistan