Ella Christie

Isabella [Ella] Robertson Christie (1861-1949), traveller and gardener, was born on 21 April 1861 at Millbank, Cockpen, Edinburgh. She travelled widely in Asia and visited many countries including India, Ceylon, Malaya, China, Japan and Borneo. Her most significant trips were to Russian Turkestan in 1910 and 1912, and she was the first British woman to visit the state of Kiva. The images here are her photographs of those two journeys.

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Ella Christie arriving in arba at Novi Urgentsch
Ella Christie in arba		 Stuck in the mud
Arba in difficulty
Camel train
Bactrian camel train		 Boat
Caiouque on Oxus River
Melon seller
Melons at Ashkhabad market		 Hat stall
Hat stall at Ashkhabad
House
Kibitka at Ashkhabad		 Ice cream seller
Ice cream seller
Tower
Minar Kalan at Bukhara		 Cart and tower
Novy Urgench

For more information please see Ella Chrisite's book on her travels:

Christie, Ella R. 'Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand' London : Seeley, Service & co., 1925.