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Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs: 1890-1914. Mikhail Pavlovich Iroshnikov. Four distinguished historians set out to evoke the daily life of St. Petersburg just when it was witnessing the last moments of its imperial glory and, simultaneously, the first shocks of social and political change. This is an extraordinary pictorial record of an emerging bourgeois St. Petersburg shows the face of a city that brims with a sense of hopefulness amid rapid social change. Many of the 307 photographs had never before been published. Photos of Tchaikovsky, Nabokov, Mendeleyev, Pavlov and Nicholas Roerich, the tsar and tsarina, and many artists, writers and actors reflecting St. Petersburg's pivotal importance.
NY: Harry N Abrams, 1992. First edition, 320 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. About fine, 1 copy only.
