‘Taken during an expedition to Yenisei Province in West Siberia, under the direction of a museum worker. Its aim was to explore and photograph the culture and everyday life of the people who lived there.’
Russian Peasants, 1911
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Bablake School, Coventry, 1955-57
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Colour photographs of Moscow, 1956
Only Known Authenticated Photograph of Billy the Kid
'Snowball Fight',1896
'La Famille et l'Alcool' c.1900
Queue for first Moscow McDonalds, 1990
Postcards of the year 2000 c.1900
Women of the Future, 1902
USSR Shuttle Transporter Plane, Antonov An-225, 1980s
Kanaval, by Leah Gordon
Child Oyster Shuckers, 1910s
Blondie the pet Lion, 1955
World Fair, Paris, 1900
Tall-tale Postcards, c.1900s
Taking care of tiger cubs, 1944
Danderine, 1905
Chocolat Guerin-Boutron trade cards, 1900
John Dillinger in court, Crown Point, Indiana, 1934
This is an important counterpoint to the view expressed on the post about the Tsarina’s dresses that she had a hard and tragic life. Her life may have ended badly, but no worse than for many of Russia’s peasants – neglected utterly by their aristocratic rulers.
And they didn’t live in luxury until their ends in starvation or disease.
What intensely difficult lives these hard-working, isolated people apparently had… everyone looks weather-beaten and tough…but that last photo was utterly charming in its delicate hopefulness…