Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across

Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia
- Thames Hudson
The lives of the tsars and their subjects from 1855 to 1918, told through rare archival photographs
The Russian Empire was among the most mysterious of the worldâ€™s great powers, profoundly torn between a rural population living almost medieval lives and industrial and social change in the cities. The tsarâ€™s gigantic realm struggled with the advent of modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe, faith and science, different ethnic groups, and the divergent interests of the aristocracy, the middle classes, the urban workers, and the rural poor: a continent of contradictions from abject poverty to fairy-tale wealth captured by authors from Tolstoy to Chekhov, from Gogol to Gorky.

Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door into the world of pre-revolutionary Russia using original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include remarkable color images created using an early three-color-plate technique that brings the remote past to life. Our companions on this journey include the Scottish photographer William Carrick, Americans George Kennan and Murray Howe, the German-Russian Carl Bulla, Sergey Produkin-Gorsky, and the writers Leonid Andreyev and Anton Chekhov, together with many anonymous others.

These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world, yet they reveal a surprising continuity: despite the subsequent revolution, faces, buildings, and landscapes still resonate with those who see them a century and more later. 360 illustrations, 114 in color
Country USA
Brand Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer Thames & Hudson
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Grayscale
ReleaseDate 2013-04-01
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884851880321
EANs 9780500516683

Country	USA
Brand	Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer	Thames & Hudson
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Grayscale
ReleaseDate	2013-04-01
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884851880321
EANs	9780500516683

Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia

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