Twilight of the Romanovs : A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia

Blom, Philipp/ Buckley, Veronica

Thames & Hudson Ltd（2013/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780500516683
• DDC分類 947.080222

Full Description

Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt. We discover a world of exceptional diversity, seemingly timeless, almost archaic, marked by persistent poverty, yet also abundantly rich and often surprisingly modern. These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world. The Russian Empire was soon to be destroyed, and, in the ensuing blood-soaked decades, rendered unrecognizable. Yet these images reveal a surprising continuity: despite the subsequent cataclysm, faces, postures, buildings and landscapes still resonate with those who see them a century and more later.

Contents

The Extent of the Empire • Introduction: Images of a Vanished World • St Petersburg • The Northwest • The West • The Southwest • Central Asia • The Far East • Siberia • The Urals • Moscow & Environs