Table of contents:
- 1. John of Kronstadt
- 2. Passage
- 3. Mstislav Dobuzhinsky
- 4. 200th anniversary of St. Petersburg
- 5. Parade of the Cavalry Regiment
- 6. Grigory Rasputin with officers
- 7. Leo Tolstoy and Karl Bulla
- 8. Leo Tolstoy on a horse
- 9. Tolstoy playing chess
- 10. Alexander Opekushin
- 11. Actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya
- 12. Komissarzhevskaya reading a book
- 13. Nicholas Roerich in the studio
- 14. Outstanding people of their time
- 15. Icebreaker Captain
- 16. Repin and Chukovsky
Video: Back in the past: an interesting selection of pre-revolutionary photographs by Karl Bull
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
Sometimes old photographs can tell a lot more than history books. The main thing is to consider them carefully, without missing a single detail. Our review contains retro photographs that show Russia and its inhabitants as they were before the 1917 revolution.
1. John of Kronstadt
2. Passage
3. Mstislav Dobuzhinsky
4. 200th anniversary of St. Petersburg
5. Parade of the Cavalry Regiment
6. Grigory Rasputin with officers
7. Leo Tolstoy and Karl Bulla
8. Leo Tolstoy on a horse
9. Tolstoy playing chess
10. Alexander Opekushin
11. Actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya
12. Komissarzhevskaya reading a book
13. Nicholas Roerich in the studio
14. Outstanding people of their time
15. Icebreaker Captain
16. Repin and Chukovsky
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