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Elizaveta Shelaeva. Photographs from Imperial St. Petersburg. A richly illustrated photographic journey of old St. Petersburg, which, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the capital of Imperial Russia. The Russia of the Tsars is on display with their unimaginable wealth and concentrated power, personifying all that is splendid in a world destined to dissolve in fragments. Here, St. Petersburg's master photographers, led by the famous early chronicler Karl Bulla, reveal St. Petersburg as the capital of opulent splendor and nervous apprehension.
Russia (St. Petersburg): Unicorn Publishing Group, 2013. 160 pages. English translation edition. Large softcover printed on high quality with 120 crisp and clear blue sepia tone fully captioned photograph. Collected from the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of St. Petersburg. 1 copy only.
