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Twilight of the Romanovs : a photographic odyssey across Imperial Russia, 1855-1918 / Philipp Blom & Veronica Buckley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blom, Philipp, 1970-
- Standardized Title:
- Russische Zarenreich. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918--Family--Pictorial works.
- Nicholas.
- Romanov, House of--Pictorial works.
- Romanov, House of.
- Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Families.
- Russia--History--1801-1917--Pictorial works.
- Russia.
- Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917--Pictorial works.
- Russia--Social conditions--1801-1917--Pictorial works.
- Russia--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- First United States hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
- Summary:
- The Russian Empire was among the most mysterious of the world's great powers, profoundly torn between a rural population living almost medieval lives and industrial and social change in the cities. The tsar's gigantic realm struggled with the advent of modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe, faith and science, different ethnic groups, and the divergent interests of the aristocracy, the middle classes, the urban workers, and the rural poor: a continent of contradictions from abject poverty to fairy-tale wealth captured by authors from Tolstoy to Chekhov, from Gogol to Gorky. Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door into the world of pre-revolutionary Russia using original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include remarkable color images created using an early three-color-plate technique that brings the remote past to life. Our companions on this journey include the Scottish photographer William Carrick, Americans George Kennan and Murray Howe, the German-Russian Carl Bulla, Sergey Produkin-Gorsky, and the writers Leonid Andreyev and Anton Chekhov, together with many anonymous others. These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world, yet they reveal a surprising continuity: despite the subsequent revolution, faces, buildings, and landscapes still resonate with those who see them a century and more later.
- Contents:
- The extent of the empire
- Introduction: Images of a vanished world
- St Petersburg
- The northwest
- The west
- The southwest
- Central Asia
- The far east
- Siberia
- The Urals
- Moscow & environs.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Das russische Zarenreich : eine fotografische Reise, 1855-1918. Wien : Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 247).
- ISBN:
- 9780500516683
- 0500516685
- OCLC:
- 828073252
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