My childhood… Children in Russian photography of the second half of the XNUMXth – early XNUMXth century

Babies in elegant bonnets and girls in long lace dresses hugging their favorite toys, fashionable sailor collars and high, tightly laced boots… About 500 centuries-old “staged” photographs from hundreds of family archives are collected in this album. In portrait and group shots — children with grandparents, nannies and governesses — amazing, «out of this world» faces, which you want to look at endlessly. And looking at, thinking out the details of the lives of these people, which will help numerous “direct speeches” of witnesses of a bygone era — excerpts from letters, diaries, memoirs of famous people, including Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Evgeny Schwartz, Vladimir Nabokov, Sofia Giatsintova … Album creators, writer and historian Elena Lavrentyeva and photographer Viktor Shtulman included in the publication a funny selection of illustrations from domestic and European children’s periodicals of that time.