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Photographs from Imperial St. Petersburg

Door Yuri Shelaev e.a.

Categorie
Geschiedenis Rusland
Boeknummer
#269542
Titel
Photographs from Imperial St. Petersburg
Auteur
Shelaev, Yuri & Elizaveta Shelaev
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London, Uniform Press Ltd.
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
1906509395
ISBN13
9781906509392
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
<div>The photographs in this rich collection of timeless images captures St. Petersburg - the capital of Imperial Russia - in its heyday in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Tsarist Russia is shown as the personification of all that is splendid in a disappearing world, a world of unimaginable wealth and concentrated power. Accurately portraying a flamboyant world that was soon to pass and foreseeing darker days ahead, St. Petersburg&#39;s master photographers, led by the famous early chronicler Karl Bulla, here reveal their St. Petersburg, the imperial capital of splendor and foreboding, of certainties and contradictions. The book includes 120 photographs of the city in all her glory, her famous people and their lavish styles, all collected from the Central State Archive of... (Lees verder) Film and Photo Documents of St. Petersburg.</div>
Pagina's
151
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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