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Twilight of the Romanovs : A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia by Veronica Buckley and Philipp Blom (2013, Hardcover)

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.

Book Title
Twilight of the Romanovs : a Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia
Author
Veronica Buckley, Philipp Blom
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern / General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
History
Number of Pages
248 Pages

Lc Classification Number
Dk37.8.R6
Reviews
The color imagery is . . . haunting . . . cold stares coupled with bright clothes, and breathtaking landscapes . . . these are photographs that have not been highlighted in the eye of the public., The early color photographs in the book are poignant and startlingly immediate, whether they depict cornflowers in a field of rye or a group of friends at a dinner party., The color imagery is . . . haunting . . . cold stares coupled with bright clothes, and breathtaking landscapes . . . these are photographs that have not been highlighted in the eye of the public.
Copyright Date
2013
Dewey Decimal
947.04600222
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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