Table of contents:
- 1. On maneuvers in Krasnoe Selo
- 2. Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment
- 3. Horseback riding
- 4. The Bronze Horseman
- 5. Sadovaya street
- 6. Transportation of the wounded
- 7. Horse tram
- 8. Javelin throw
- 9. Running with hurdles
- 10. Morning exercises
Video: Pre-revolutionary Russia through the lens of "the father of Russian photo reportage" Karl Bull
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Karl Bulla was born into a merchant family in Prussia, and when he was 12 years old, the family moved to St. Petersburg, and he started working as a messenger in a photography store. Since this all started. The photograph fascinated Karl and he, a capable boy, was soon transferred to laboratory assistants. In 1875 Bulla opened his first photo studio and soon won fame as an excellent portrait painter. Karl Bulla and his sons left a huge photographic legacy to their descendants. Today in St. Petersburg there are more than 200 thousand glass negatives, which were made by them.
1. On maneuvers in Krasnoe Selo
2. Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment
3. Horseback riding
4. The Bronze Horseman
5. Sadovaya street
6. Transportation of the wounded
7. Horse tram
8. Javelin throw
9. Running with hurdles
10. Morning exercises
There is one more collection of great interest today - Arkhangelsk province and its inhabitants in 1910 in the photo of the Swedish ethnographer.
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