Alʹbom snimkov drevnosteĭ i dostoprim︠i︡echatelʹnosteĭ khran︠i︡ashchikhs︠i︡a v rizni︠t︡s︠i︡e Arkhīereĭskago doma v︠ ︡Iaroslavl︠i︡e

Collection History

The Library acquired the majority of the albums in this digital presentation during the early 1930s. Many were originally part of Romanov palace libraries nationalized by the Soviet government and sold abroad for hard currency.

Background

Subjects include Russian Orthodox churches, monasteries, and ecclesiastical art; views of cities, as well as small provincial towns; secular architecture; tsarist- and Soviet-era political exiles; and the diverse peoples of the Russian Empire. A number of albums include portraits of the Tsar or the imperial family; state occasions, military maneuvers, and relaxation at the imperial hunting lodge are all depicted. Represented as well are military operations, particularly during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. Russian Revolutionary-era photos are extensive, ranging from the immediate aftermath of the February Revolution, to the Stalinist period.

Many of the imperial association albums-that is, those presented as gifts to the royal family-are of superior technical and artistic quality, and in several cases mounted in bindings that are themselves works of art, incorporating silver, wood, and other decorative elements.

Related Resources

Hee-Gwone Yoo."Holdings of rare photographs and plate books at the Slavic and Baltic Division of The New York Public Library." Rosia yongu (Russian Studies), vol. 12, no. 1 (2002): [323]-332.

Collection Data

Names
Lopatin, V. A., active 1890s-1900s (Photographer)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1880 - 1889 (Approximate)
Place: Iaroslavl
Publisher: Fotografiia V.A. Lopatina
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: Slav. Reserve (Photo) (Albom snimkov drevnostei...)
Topics
I︠A︡roslavskīĭ Spaso-Preobrazhenskīĭ monastyrʹ
I︠A︡roslavlʹ (I︠A︡roslavskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
Church decoration and ornament -- Russia
Icons, Russian
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Album of photographs with descriptive letterpress, originally in box.
Content: Thirty photographs of treasures from the Spaso-Preobrazhenskii (Savior-Transformation) Monastery in Iaroslavl. Includes one general view of the monastery, many plates of icons, textiles, and elaborately decorated crosses and other articles.
Content: Album of photographs of antiquities and objects of, kept in the vestry of the house of the clergy in Iaroslavl.
Acquisition: Transferred from the Slavic and Baltic Division, 2012.
Physical Description
Extent: [30] mounted photographs : ill. ; 30 cm.
Albumen prints
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17032001
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f75a8a00-c6bf-012f-909a-58d385a7bc34
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