Leafing through this album, you catch yourself thinking: the spirit of old Moscow is much better conveyed not by carefully captured architectural views (ceremonial pictures of the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior look completely modern), but by photographs of townspeople, ordinary and famous Muscovites.
Leafing through this album, you catch yourself thinking: the spirit of old Moscow is much better conveyed not by carefully captured architectural views (ceremonial pictures of the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior look completely modern), but by photographs of townspeople, ordinary and famous Muscovites. Celebrations on the occasion of the coronation of Nicholas II, Chekhov and Tolstoy, Pirogov, Sklifosofsky, pupils of the cadet school in fencing classes, cab drivers, passengers at a tram stop, a seller of whips, young entomologists with nets … Looking at their faces, you clearly understand that the human «landscape» unique. You catch the gaze of a stranger on yourself (directed more than a century ago into the lens) and you feel his mood, state …
Faces of Russia