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 photographs of Ivan Vasilyevich Boldyrev are a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian light painting, 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 originality of the author's vision, the flair of the situation, the ability to give an accurate figurative characteristic in a concise pictorial form are becoming more and more clearly visible. In this sense, it is possible to speak with good reason about Boldyrev as a great original artist who made a significant contribution to the development of domestic light painting.

Source: Livejournal/aloban75

1. Cossack family on holiday. 1875-1876.

2. Stanitsa works. 1875-1876.

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

4. Cossacks on holiday. 1875-1876.

5. The offended girl. 1875-1876.

6. Hunters.

7. Cossacks wear watermelons. 1875-1876.

8. A 72-year-old Cossack woman pours oats. 1875-1876.

9. A Cossack harnessing a horse. 1875-1876.

10. The Cossack's yard. 1875-1876.

11. Cossack house. 1875-1876.

12. Review of the Cossacks by the ataman. September 1876.

13. Cossacks before entering the service. 1875-1876.

14. The Cossack family. 1875-1876.

15. The Cossack. 1875-1876.

16. A young Cossack. 1875-1876.

17. Cossack 95 years old. 1875-1876.

18. Cossack 75 years old. 1875-1876.

19. 1875-1876.

20. Kumshatskaya stanitsa, general view. 1875-1876.

21. Cossack old men with ataman. 1875-1876.

22. 1875-1876.

23. 1875-1876.

24. A Cossack woman in a festive costume. 1875-1876.

25. A Cossack woman in a Don fur coat. 1875-1876.

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

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

28. A Cossack woman in a "hood". 1875-1876.

29. Don Cossack and Cossack woman in festive costumes. 1875-1876.

30. Don Cossack 73 years old with his wife. 1875-1876.

31. Girls sew dresses. 1875-1876.

32. Oxen. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875-1876.

33. Don at the Tsymlyanskaya village. 1875-1876.

34. A Cossack woman sorting grapes. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875-1876.

35. Horn camping glass. 1875-1876.

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37. The bazaar on a holiday in the Tsymlyanskaya village. 1875-1876.

38. The return of the Cossacks from the fair to the Tsymlyanskaya village. 1875-1876.

39. Girls in kubilaks. Don smart suit. 1875-1876.

40. Don at Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875-1876.

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

42. A Cossack selling Tsymlyansk wine. 1875-1876.

43. Cossacks before entering the service. 1875-1876.

44. A Cossack woman repairs a window. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875-1876.

45. The Cossacks water the vegetable gardens. 1875-1876.

46. Cossack women wear dung in a katuh (barn). Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875-1876.

47. Cossack family on holiday. 1875-1876.

48. The Cossack family. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875-1876.

49. Shepherds. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa 1875-1876.

50. Seeing off the Don Cossacks to the service. September 1876

51. Seeing off a Cossack in the field. 1875-1876.

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

53. Sheep shearing. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa. 1875-1876.

54. A street in the Kumshatskaya village. 1875-1876.

55. Street on a holiday in the grape gardens. The land of the Don army II Tsymlyanskaya village. 1875-1876.

56. Tsymlyanskaya Stanitsa Street on a holiday. 1875-1876.

57. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa 1875-1876.

58. Tsymlyanskaya stanitsa 1875-1876.