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...
Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door into the world of pre-revolutionary Russia using original photographs taken during the last decades of ...
The early 20th century was a giddy period of creativity, change and great social upheaval. Challenging a long-held interpretation of recent European history, Philipp Blom chronicles this epoch year by year, vividly bringing to life an opulent, unstable age simultaneously on the brink of greatness and disaster.
The early 20th century was a giddy period of creativity, change and great social upheaval. Challenging a long-held interpretation of recent European h...
