Árnyék a Selyemúton

The world-famous Hungarian–British archaeologist Aurel Stein was just visiting the Tarim basin on his second major expedition to Inner Asian section of Silk Road in 1907, when he became a witness rare astronomical phenomenon, total solar eclipse. He also captured impressions work entitled Ruins Desert Cathay, published Hungarian. At same moment, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky, pioneer color photography, as member Russian scientific trying take world’s first photograph eclipse snowcapped hillside Turkestan (today Uzbekistan), middle snowstorm. In special way, lives Hungarian and photographer were intertwined for moment. my paper I look at this moment from an astronomical, geographical, historical perspective well.