Gottfried Geissler, Abbildung und Beschreibung der Völkerstämme und Völker..., 1803

At the end of the 18th century, Prussian scholar Peter Simon Palas led several expeditions across the Russian Empire, in search of new plants and animals. On one of these expedition, in 1790s, he was accompanied by Gottfrid Geissler, the talented German artist who made numerous sketches that later, with the help of Friedrich Hempel, were published in a book "Depictions and Descriptions of Tribes and Nations under the Russian Emperor Alexander's Benevolent Governance" [Abbildung und Beschreibung der Völkerstämme und Völker unter des russischen Kaisers Alexander menschenfreundlichen Regierung] in 1803. The book features dozens of sketches of various peoples and short descriptions of their customs and traditions. Below are several drawings related to Georgia and the Caucasus.