Frenchman Jean Xavier Raoul, a member of the French Photographic Society, spent more than 20 years in the Russian Empire – from the early 1860s to the early 1880s. He was the owner of a photo studio in Odessa, traveled around the country for many years and published the album “A Collection of Folk Types of Russia” – an album of landscapes and staged photographs, thanks to which unique images of Crimean Tatars of the late 19th century have survived to this day.