Twilight of the romanovs: a photographic odissey across imperial russia

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Sinopse

These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world and include many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colour-plate technique which bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt.The Russian Empire was soon to be destroyed and rendered unrecognizable. Yet these images reveal a surprising continuity: despite the subsequent cataclysm, faces, postures, buildings and landscapes still resonate with those who see them a century and more later.The Russian Empire was torn between a rural population living almost medieval lives and the industrial and social change in the cities. The Tsar’s gigantic realm struggled with modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe; faith and science; ethnic divisions; and the divergent interests of the aristocracy, the middle classes, the urban workers and the rural poor. This continent of contradictions was captured by authors from Tolstoy to Chekhov, from Gogol to Gorky and Bely.

Participantes

Autor: Philipp Blom | Veronica Buckley

Autor

PHILIPP BLOM

Phillip Blom nasceu em Hamburgo em 1970. Depois de estudar em Viena e Oxford, trabalhou como jornalista e tradutor no mercado editorial de Londres e Paris, onde reside. Seu romance The Simmons Papers foi publicado em 1995.