The artist, ethnographer, and writer N. N. Kazarin, had a lengthy residence in Siberia and Central Asia, first as a soldier, and then chronicler of local events. The album from which this illustration is taken was created as a gift for the future Tsar Nicholas II, "the most august ataman," and given to him in the summer of 1891 on his return through Siberia from a trip to the Russian Far East.

Looks like something to look into, eh.