Donskoy album by Ivan Vasilyevich Boldyrev

May 12, 1570 is considered in Russia the day of the foundation of the Don Cossacks, which took shape that year in the form of an organized community "The Main Don Army" of people who fled from the central regions of the Russian state from feudal serfdom exploitation and settled on the Don.

The Don pictures of Ivan Vasilyevich Boldyrev are a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian light painting, the interest in them has not waned for more than a century, and it is not only ethnographic and educational in nature. In these photographs, the author's extraordinary vision, the sense of the situation, and the ability to give an accurate figurative description in a concise visual form are becoming more and more clear. In this sense, we can rightly speak of Boldyrev as a great original artist who made a significant contribution to the development of Russian light painting.

Cossack family on holiday. 1875–1876.

Stanitsa works. 1875–1876.

Transportation across the Don during the Spassovskaya-Tsymlyanskaya Fair. 1875–1876.

Cossacks on holiday. 1875–1876.

The offended girl. 1875–1876.

Hunters.

Cossacks wear watermelons. 1875–1876.

Kazachka 72 years old sips oats. 1875-1876.

A Cossack harnessing a horse. 1875–1876.

The Cossack's yard. 1875–1876.

Cossack house. 1875-1876.

Review of the Cossacks by the ataman. September 1876.

Cossacks before entering the service. 1875–1876.

The Cossack family. 1875–1876.

Kazachka. 1875–1876.

A young Cossack. 1875–1876.

Kazachka 95 years old. 1875-1876.

Cossack 75 years old. 1875-1876.

1875–1876.

Kumshatskaya stanitsa, general view. 1875-1876.

Cossack old men with the ataman. 1875–1876.

1875–1876.

1875–1876.

A Cossack woman in a festive costume. 1875–1876.

A Cossack woman in a Don fur coat. 1875–1876.

Don Cossack-shooter 75 years old. 1875-1876.

Don Cossack-shooter 75 years old. 1875-1876.

The Cossack girl in the "cap". 1875–1876.

Don Cossack and Cossack girl in festive costumes. 1875–1876.

Don Cossack 73 years old with his wife. 1875–1876.

Girls sew dresses. 1875–1876.

Oxen. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Don at Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

A Cossack woman sorting grapes. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Horn travel glass. 1875-1876.

Bazaar on a holiday in Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Return of the Cossacks from the fair to Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Girls in kubilyaki. Don smart suit. 1875–1876.

Don at Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Don Cossack-shooter 75 years old. 1875-1876.

A Cossack selling Tsymlyansk wine. 1875–1876.

Cossacks before entering the service. 1875–1876.

A Cossack woman is fixing a window. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

The Cossacks water the vegetable gardens. 1875–1876.

Cossack women wear dung in a katukh (shed). Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Cossack family on holiday. 1875–1876.

The Cossack family. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Shepherds. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa 1875-1876.

Seeing off the Don Cossacks for service. September 1876

Seeing off the Cossack in the field. 1875–1876.

Gathering of Cossacks on the farm Gnutovom Esaulovskaya village (most likely, modern Verkhnegnutov Chernyshkovsky district). 1875–1876.

Sheep shearing. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Street in Kumshatskaya stanitsa. 1875–1876.

Street on holiday in the grape orchards. Land of the Don army II stanitsa Tsymlyanskaya. 1875–1876.

Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa street on a holiday. 1875–1876.

Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa 1875-1876.