Journeys Through The Russian Empire
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Journeys Through The Russian Empire
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Author : William Craft Brumfield
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-12
Journeys Through The Russian Empire written by William Craft Brumfield and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-12 with Photography categories.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid change due to industrialization and the building of railroads. Between 1903 and 1916 Prokudin-Gorsky, who developed a pioneering method of capturing color images on glass plates, scoured the Russian Empire with the patronage of Nicholas II. Intrepidly carrying his cumbersome and awkward camera from the western borderlands over the Volga River to Siberia and central Asia, he created a singular record of Imperial Russia. In 1918 Prokudin-Gorsky escaped an increasingly chaotic, violent Russia and regained nearly 2,000 of his bulky glass negatives. His subsequent peripatetic existence before settling in Paris makes his collection's survival all the more miraculous. The U.S. Library of Congress acquired Prokudin-Gorsky's collection in 1948, and since then it has become a touchstone for understanding pre-revolutionary Russia. Now digitized and publicly available, his images are a sensation in Russia, where people visit websites dedicated to them. William Craft Brumfield—photographer, scholar, and the leading authority on Russian architecture in the West—began working with Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs in 1985. He curated the first public exhibition of them in the United States and has annotated the entire collection. In Journeys through the Russian Empire, Brumfield—who has spent decades traversing Russia and photographing buildings and landscapes in their various stages of disintegration or restoration—juxtaposes Prokudin-Gorsky's images against those he took of the same buildings and areas. In examining the intersections between his own photography and that of Prokudin-Gorsky, Brumfield assesses the state of preservation of Russia's architectural heritage and calls into question the nostalgic assumptions of those who see Prokudin-Gorsky's images as the recovery of the lost past of an idyllic, pre-Soviet Russia. This lavishly illustrated volume—which features some 400 stunning full-color images of ancient churches and mosques, railways and monasteries, towns and remote natural landscapes—is a testament to two brilliant photographers whose work prompts and illuminates, monument by monument, questions of conservation, restoration, and cultural identity and memory.
Empire Of The Czar
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Author : Astolphe marquis de Custine
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 1990
Empire Of The Czar written by Astolphe marquis de Custine and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
More than 150 years after its publication, the Marquis de Custine's colorful account of his journey through Russia is more relevant today than ever before. "Throughout the years, Custine's Empire has remained one of the most famous Western accounts of czarist days".--San Francisco Chronicle. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Travels Through The Southern Provinces Of The Russian Empire In The Years 1793 And 1794
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Author : Peter Simon Pallas
language : en
Publisher: London : Printed for J. Stockdale
Release Date : 1812
Travels Through The Southern Provinces Of The Russian Empire In The Years 1793 And 1794 written by Peter Simon Pallas and has been published by London : Printed for J. Stockdale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with Crimea (Ukraine) categories.
A Journey To The End Of The Russian Empire
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Author : Anton Chekov
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007
A Journey To The End Of The Russian Empire written by Anton Chekov and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Russia categories.
Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on his long journey with his grim account of the reality of life in one of the worst places on earth. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
The Empire Of The Czar Or Observations On The Social Political And Religious State And Prospects Of Russia
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Author : Astolphe marquis de Custine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843
The Empire Of The Czar Or Observations On The Social Political And Religious State And Prospects Of Russia written by Astolphe marquis de Custine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with History categories.
Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire
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Author : Robert Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire written by Robert Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Poland categories.
Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland Along The Southern Shores Of The Baltic
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Author : Robert Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1816
Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland Along The Southern Shores Of The Baltic written by Robert Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1816 with Poland categories.
Travels Through The Southern Provinces Of The Russian Empire
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Author : Peter Simon Pallas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Travels Through The Southern Provinces Of The Russian Empire written by Peter Simon Pallas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Crimea categories.
The Boy Travellers In The Russian Empire
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Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
The Boy Travellers In The Russian Empire written by Thomas Wallace Knox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Adventure stories categories.
Travel Through The Southern Provinces Of The Russian Empire In The Years 1793 And 1794
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Author : Peter Simon Pallas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1802
Travel Through The Southern Provinces Of The Russian Empire In The Years 1793 And 1794 written by Peter Simon Pallas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1802 with categories.