Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan (1880-1944), halftone print, published 1899 - Bildbanksillustration

The Prince and later Emir of Bukhara Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan (1880 - 1944) - 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, the Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch and reigned from 3 January 1911 to 30 August 1920. Halftone print after a photograph, published in 1899.