Refugees leaving the town of Baku. 1918

A photograph showing refugees leaving Baku for Persia in 1918.

This 1918 photograph by Ariel Varges, available via Wikimedia Commons, documents refugees departing Baku for Persia. It belongs to the visual record of mass displacement from the city during the year when the Army of Islam advanced on Baku and the city was held successively by the Baku Soviet, the Centrocaspian Dictatorship and the British Dunsterforce. As the record gives no exact date or circumstances, the context can only be fixed to the year 1918.