Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (589 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0500516685 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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A bit misleading When I first saw this book online I assumed, incorrectly, that the book would primarily deal with the Romanovs. Instead I found maybe a dozen photos of the Romanovs in the entire book. It was interesting to see pictures of turn-of-the-century Russia but overall I was not impressed. The photos, however, were of excellent quality. But for anyone interested in photos of the family, I'd pass on this one. Not worth the $60 dollars I paid for it.. "Coffee table book on late imperial Russia" according to A Reader. This book offers a selection of photos taken all over the Russian empire from 1855 to 1917. Don't take the accuracy of the text for granted-Rasputin is described in one caption as a "wandering priest," which he was not. The research on the book seemed to be rather lax. The color photos in the book, taken using a Coffee table book on late imperial Russia A Reader This book offers a selection of photos taken all over the Russian empire from 1855 to 1917. Don't take the accuracy of the text for granted-Rasputin is described in one caption as a "wandering priest," which he was not. The research on the book seemed to be rather lax. The color photos in the book, taken using a 4-plate technique, were interesting. The quality of the photos in the book was consistently good, so if you're just buying it for the photos, you should be okay. I didn't think it was quite . -plate technique, were interesting. The quality of the photos in the book was consistently good, so if you're just buying it for the photos, you should be okay. I didn't think it was quite . Captivating Paul Richardson The title of this captivating photo book is a bit misleading. The Romanovs are little seen beyond the first few dozen pages of this 250-page gallery. And that is as it should be. For this is a book more about the waning days of empire, about the millions of subjects who lived in medieval conditions and in abject poverty, about the far flung outposts of a sprawling assemblage of nations and peoples, about the clash between modernity and tradition, urban and rural. Indeed, the title of the book's intr
. Philipp Blom’s publications include A Wicked Company and The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914.Veronica Buckley is the author of Queen Christina and Madame de Maintenon
“The early color photographs in the book are poignant and startlingly immediate, whether they depict cornflowers in a field of rye or a group of friends at a dinner party.” (Women's Wear Daily)“Rare and startling examples of early color photographs .” (Library Journal)“The color imagery is haunting cold stares coupled with bright clothes, and breathtaking landscapes these are photographs that have not been highlighted in the eye of the public.” (The Photo Review)
The tsar’s gigantic realm struggled with the advent of modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe, faith and science, different ethnic groups, and the divergent interests of the aristocracy, the middle classes, the urban workers, and the rural poor: a continent of contradictions from abject poverty to fairy-tale wealth captured by authors from Tolstoy to Chekhov, from Gogol to Gorky.Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door into the world of pre-revolutionary Russia using original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include remarkable color images created using an early three-color-plate technique that brings the remote past to life. These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world, yet they reveal a surprising continuity: despite the subsequent revolution, faces, buildings, and landscapes still resonate with those who see