A century ago, Gustaf Mannerheim and Paul Pelliot took a portait with Kurmanjan Datka, the Queen of Alai, near Chigirchiq Pass. A century later, author Eric Enno Tamm (far left) posed for a photograph with Sardarbek Ismailov (second from left), the great-grandson of Kurmanjan Datka, and his relatives, in a yurt atop Chigirchiq Pass.

A century ago, Gustaf Mannerheim and Paul Pelliot took a portait with Kurmanjan Datka, the Queen of Alai, near Chigirchiq Pass. A century later, author Eric Enno Tamm (far left) posed for a photograph with Sardarbek Ismailov (second from left), the great-grandson of Kurmanjan Datka, and his relatives, in a yurt atop Chigirchiq Pass.

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