Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia Thames&Hudson 9780500516683

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. These are snapshots of a vanished world and include many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colour-plate technique which bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt. The Russian Empire was soon to be destroyed and 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. The Russian Empire was torn between a rural population living almost medieval lives and the industrial and social change in the cities. The Tsar’s gigantic realm struggled with modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe
faith and science
ethnic divisions
and the divergent interests of the aristocracy, the middle classes, the urban workers and the rural poor. This continent of contradictions was captured by authors from Tolstoy to Chekhov, from Gogol to Gorky and Bely.

Магазин: Podpisnie

ISBN: 9780500516683
Язык: Английский
Объем: 248
Формат: 240x290,Твёрдый
Издательство: THAMES & HUDSON
Год: 2013
Количество страниц: 248
Переплет: Твёрдый
Count: 2
Год публикации: 2013