We have already shown you the photos of tsarist Russia taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Color photos of that period are a unique heritage. But there was another classic photographer whose photos were not less precious. It’s Maxim Dmitriev. But as opposed to Prokudin-Gorsky he showed different Russia to us, which was not so perfect for being on postcards.
People dine out in the village of Pralevka. 1891-1892.
People are sick with typhoid in the city of Knyaginin.
1891-1892. The doctor visits the patient sick with typhoid.
Loaning bread to peasants in Knyaginin.
1891-1892.
The fair in Nizhny Novgorod during the flood.
It’s the general view of the fair.
The machinery hall of the All-Russian Art and Design Exhibition. 1896.
It’s a movie thater “Magic World”.
Bells at the fair.
It’s the main warehouse of the rubber manufacture.
A wanderer in the convent, 1904.
The rector of the chapel in 1897.
Pilgrims, 1904.
People are seeing off the icon of Oran Lady from Nizhny Novgorod to Oran Virgin Monastery.
Holy spring in the Sarov monastery.
Old believers meet in Nizhny Novgorod.
Pilgrims are going to the Virgin Monastery, 1904.
Building the city mosque in Nizhny Novgorod in 1904.
People on the way to Sarov Monastery.
1897.
People are seeing off the icon of Oran Lady from Nizhny Novgorod to Oran Virgin Monastery.
Hermit monk, 1987.
Drying nets.
Market in the city of Semenov, 1897.
1897.
Kuznetsovo village.
The view of the Volga.
The ships on the Volga near the city of Yaroslavl. 1894.
The men are making spoons in 1897.
On the bank of the Oka river.
Alexander’s bridge across the Volga in Syzran, 1894.
Observing Nizhny Novgorod from the Oka river.
Stand-up fight.
It’s the hall of the State bank, 1913.
The square at the station.
In the hall of the City Court.
It’s amazing to see life in Russia so many years ago!
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Much better than life with Putin.
At least the cities were not crawling with “workers” from the muslim republics…the revolution was Russia´s biggest mistake and it still pays for it.
Just wondering…the ere is a picture markied “Loaning Bread”. Do the peasants have to give it back?
No, they did what most of still do when they use a credit card: buy now – pay later ; quite common also in Western Europe until the 1950s/60s
“People are sick with typhoid in the city of Knyaginin.” Realism.
Typhoid was a problem until the end of the second world war. In order to cure it you need antibiotics which were invented by Alexander Fleming during the second world war.
The photo of “Alexander’s bridge across the Volga in Syzran, 1894” is amazing!!!
wondering if they were all true christian or not
Surely more than you are…
Ahora entiendo porque se concreto la revolución de 1917 octubre
Now I understand why the revolution took shape in October 1917
believe, You don’t.
Amazing! its a pleasure to see this kind of photos. Heck! the world is changing so fast! Thanks for sharing!