I came across these earlier today, and thought them worth sharing!
www.thespektator.co.uk/spg2.html
(some examples from the site:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-8086.jpg
The Emir of Bukhara, said to be a descendant of Ghengis Khan. The photo was taking c. 1912. The Emir would be chased out of his lands by the Bolsheviks several years later, and would live in exile until his death in the 1940s.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-8001.jpg
A carpet seller in the Samarkand Market (the Registan), now Uzbekistan.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-5006.jpg
Pinkhus Karlinskii, the supervisor of the Chernigov floodgate, stands by a ferry dock along the Mariinskii Canal system in the northern part of European Russia. In the photo album of his tour of the canal system, Prokudin-Gorskii noted that Karlinskii was eighty-four years old and had served for sixty-six years. The canal system, known today as the Volga-Baltic Waterway, was constructed to link the extensive river system of the Volga and its tributaries to provide access from the interior of European Russia to the Baltic Sea.
There are 100 more on the link, Enjoy!