It was at La Abadía Centro de Arte y Estudios Latinoamericanos in the city of Buenos Aires that hosted the exhibition “The Other Frontiers” The Far East. The exhibition, the first of its kind presented by La Abadía Art Center, is made up of 99 ethnographic photographs.

The exhibition is made up of 99 ethnographic photographs corresponding to different peoples of the former Imperial Russia. It presents a historical and geographical journey through different areas of the territory of the former Tsarist empire from Eastern Europe to the Far East, passing through the Caucasus, the Arctic, Central Asia and Siberia.

The images, which were documented by Russian ethnographers, folklorists and photographers in the early 20th century, depict members of various ethnic groups from the vast Russian imperial territory, their villages and customs.

The collection comes from the very rich holdings of the Russian Ethnographic Museum of St. Petersburg, the largest of its kind in the world, is part of the collection of the Museum of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art (MAPI) in Montevideo from a donation made by the Diputación de Valencia in 2016.