Los 4086

Russian Empire
Selected views of the Russian Empre

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Photographers: B. Avanzo (active 1870s-1880s) and others. Selected views of the Russian Empire. 1880s-1890s. 32 albumen prints and 4 photochrome prints, some mounted to board. Various image sizes, from 12 x 17,5 cm to 21,5 x 27,5 cm. Several titled and numbered in the negative at lower edge; some mounts with Russian titles stamped below the image; a few with photographers’ stamps on the verso.

An extensive group spanning the Russian Empire from Moscow and Kyiv to the Caucasus and Central Asia. It includes views of Moscow (8), Tiflis (8), the Baku oilfields (2), Kyiv (4), Georgian inhabitants and landscapes (6), and monuments in Bukhara and Samarkand (9). Together, the photographs juxtapose major urban centers, regional architecture, industrial development and landscapes at the empire’s southern and eastern reaches.