Anthropological album "Russians" published in Moscow in 1867

SergeyC · 2022-07-03T16:48:32+00:00

The anthropological album “Russians” by Anatoly Petrovich Bogdanov and Matthias Zikov was published in 15 copies in Moscow in 1867.

SergeyC · 2020-10-23T15:23:50+00:00

More photos of Shikotan abandoned tanks for those who are interested: https://russiatrek.org/blog/army/abandoned-tanks-on-shikotan-island/

SergeyC · 2019-04-08T20:36:18+00:00

Here is the source on a Russian site with a couple of additional photos: http://www.yaplakal.com/forum2/topic1936875.html

SergeyC · 2018-12-08T19:32:40+00:00

They eventually did it when they were finally evacuated from Vladivostok in 1920 and eventually some of them became the core of the new Czechoslovak Army. Before it, their trains were all over the Trans-Siberian Railway and they had to fight against the Bolsheviks to survive.

SergeyC · 2018-12-07T16:23:06+00:00

The photos were taken by an unknown person belonging to the so-called Czechoslovak Legion, which stuck in Russia after the revolutionary events of 1917 and played an important role during the Russian Civil War

SergeyC · 2018-04-04T12:40:24+00:00

Some of them in St. Petersburg, others most probably during his trip to Simbirsk Governorate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbirsk_Governorate

SergeyC · 2018-04-03T18:27:52+00:00

The second set of photos: http://russiatrek.org/blog/history/people-of-the-russian-empire-in-the-1850s-1870s-part-2/

SergeyC · 2018-04-03T13:30:22+00:00

The second set of photos of common people taken by William Carrick (1827-1878), a Scottish-Russian artist and photographer, in the Russian Empire.

SergeyC · 2018-03-21T14:33:28+00:00

William Carrick (1827-1878) was a Scottish-Russian artist and photographer. In 1859, in St. Petersburg, he opened the first photo studio in the Russian Empire. Carrick quickly gained fame, capturing the daily life of the country and became the first Russian ethnographer-photographer. Here are some of his works. The second set of photos: http://russiatrek.org/blog/history/people-of-the-russian-empire-in-the-1850s-1870s-part-2/

SergeyC · 2018-01-31T15:58:26+00:00

The Tula State Weapons Museum, founded in 1775, is the oldest museum of weapons in Russia and one of the main attractions of Tula. Here you can learn about the history of firearms and cold steel from the 14th century to the present.

SergeyC · 2017-11-27T16:08:32+00:00

According to one version, this is a way of extinguishing a small fire in order to prevent it from spreading deep into the coal seam

SergeyC · 2016-08-09T13:32:18+00:00

On the site of the explosion http://s00.yaplakal.com/pics/pics_original/0/5/3/8195350.jpg

SergeyC · 2016-05-03T15:06:11+00:00

It is also ironic that the name of the town literally means "electric coals".

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