RUSSIA IN SKETCHES 1872

DRAWINGS VALUABLE AND INTERESTING

Drawings from 1872 depicting Russia and its inhabitants.

to Look into the past is always interesting, especially if it"s eyewitnesses. In our review of the drawings created by the artists in the distant 1872. They painted what they saw with their own eyes, and it makes the figures particularly valuable and interesting.

1. House in the Russian North

features of the development of folk wooden architecture.

2. Hut in the North of Russia

Wooden log house in a rural wooded area.

3. Northern Cape

the Northern Cape lies within the Arctic circle.

4. Samoyed tribe

Ural-алтайское tribe, close to the Finns, but they differ from type and language.

5. St. Basil"s Cathedral

a Russian Orthodox Church erected on red square in Moscow. Widely known monument of Russian architecture.

6. Ivan the Great bell

Church-колокольня located on the Cathedral square of the Moscow Kremlin.

7. Water consecration in the temple

Holy water is a great Christian Shrine.

8. Spassky gate

the Main gate of the Kremlin, and through them the tradition has moved into the Kremlin, the Russian tsars and emperors.

9. Novodevichy convent

Orthodox convent in Moscow, at Devichie field in the bend Москвы-реки.

10. Interior view towers

Rich interior of the Palace.

11. Simonov monastery

One of the largest and richest monasteries of Moscow suburbs.

12. The Kremlin. General view

City surrounded by a fortified wall with battlements and towers.

13. General view of Moscow

View of Moscow from Sparrow hills, 1825.

14. The Kremlin. Tower

Terem Palace of the Kremlin.

15. M. Samarin

editor for the Moscow newspaper.

16. The Church of the old believers in Moscow

This is the first Church of old believers in Moscow, was built in 1907—1908 gg. by the architect I. E. Bondarenko in the style of Northern churches.

17. Trinity@Laurel ndashСергиева

the Largest male stavropighial monastery in Russia.

the Monastery is located in the centre of Sergiyev Posad, Moscow region, on the river Konchura.

19. Trader

Employees, business of trading, merchant.

20. The winter Palace

In the past, the main Imperial Palace of Russia.

21. The carriage

Four-wheeled horse-drawn cart on a long perch, reducing road jolting on long journeys.

22. Deforestation

the Conversion of land occupied by forest land without tree cover.

23. A cabin in the mountains

Small, miserable hut.

24. The camp of criminals in the mountains

Secret camp high in the mountains.

25. Russian priest

the Servant of a religious cult.

26. The believer

Russian Starover

27. Russian village

looked like a Russian village.

28. Russian village

Bright area of memory and that part of life that the more whole for our ancestors.

29. Russian house

Russian Wooden house.

30. Rural musician

Rustic музыкант-балалаечник.

31. Porter

Station loader.

32. Russian woman

Russian women - beauties and Housewives.

33. Poor pilgrim

Traveling monk.