Maxim: photos of tsarist Russia

We all know and love photography, Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. Color footage of Imperial Russia is a unique treasure. But there's another classic of equal value. Is Maksim Dmitriev. Unlike Prokudin-Gorsky, he conveyed to us the postcard of Russia. He made his first genre pictures in our country.

A year of famine in the Nizhny Novgorod region 1891-1892

1. People dining in the village Pralenke the Lukoyanov district. 1891-1892 Negative 18 × 24 cm

2. Reshetilov doctor examines a patient with typhus Kuzma Kashin in the village Nekrasove. 1891-1892 Negative 18 × 24 cm

3. Distribution of bread in a loan to the peasants in the city of Knyaginino. 1891-1892 Negative 18 × 24 cm

4. Sick with typhus in the city of Knyaginino. 1891-1892 Negative 18 × 24 cm

5. House of Tatar Salavatova in the village Kadomka the Sergach district. 1891-1892 Negative 18 × 24 cm

Nizhny Novgorod fair of 1896

6. Theatre square Nizhny Novgorod fair during floods. Negative 18 × 24 cm

7. General view of the fair with the Savior Cathedral. Negative 18 × 24 cm

8. Machine Department the all-Russian artistic and industrial exhibition. 1896 Negative 18 × 24 cm

9. Samokatskaya area. Theater "Magic world". Negative 18 × 24 cm

10. Bell ranks at the fair. Negative 18 × 24 cm

11. Theatre Figner. Negative 18 × 24 cm

12. General view of the Woodcut series and mesherskoye lake. Negative 18 × 24 cm

Russ believer 1891-1904

13. Pilgrim to the Holy Trinity-St. Seraphim nunnery in Diveevo. 1904 Negative 18 × 24 cm

14. The rector of the chapel of the Pomorians in the Semenov district. 1897 Negative 18 × 24 cm

15. Types of bohomolec in the Seraphimo-Ponetaevsk convent. 1904 Negative 18 × 24 cm

16. Seeing the icon of the Mother of God of orange from Nizhny Novgorod in orange bogoroditskiy monastery. Negative 45 × 55 cm Piece.

17. Holy spring in Sarov monastery. Negative 18 × 24 cm

18. The Congress of old believers in Nizhny Novgorod. Negative 50 × 60 cm Piece.

19. The pilgrim-morkovki bound for St. Seraphim Diveevo convent. 1904 Negative 18 × 24 cm

20. Bookmark urban Cathedral mosque in Nizhny Novgorod. 1902 Negative 18 × 24 cm

21. Pilgrims on the way to Sarov monastery. Negative 18 × 24 cm

22. Olenevskiy skit. Ustavshiy. 1897 Negative 18 × 24 cm

23. The Seraphimo-Ponetaevsk convent. View of monastic pond and the Hospital Church. Negative 18 × 24 cm

24. Seeing the icon of the Mother of God of orange from Nizhny Novgorod in orange bogoroditskiy monastery. Negative 45 × 55 cm Piece.

25. Annunciation kerzhenskii Edinoverie monastery. A monk-hermit. 1897 Negative 18 × 24 cm

Povolzh'e worked from 1894 to 1904

26. Drying nets. Negative 18 × 24 cm

27. The Lake Vselug. Shirokovskaya the churchyard. Negative 18 × 24 cm

28. Larceny Bazaar in the city of Semenov. 1897 Negative 18 × 24 cm

29. Types of old believers. Sharansky skit in the Semenov district. 1897 Negative 18 × 24 cm

30. A group of believers. The village of Kuznetsovo of the Semenov district. Negative 18 × 24 cm

31. The view of the Volga Barminski mountains. Negative 50 × 60 cm Piece.

32. A convoy of ships on the Volga near Yaroslavl. 1894 Negative 30 × 40 cm

33. Locarno production. Finish cutting spoon. 1897 Negative 18 × 24 cm

34. Ostashkovskoe fishermen. Negative 18 × 24 cm

35. Sluda. The views of the Bank of the Oka. Negative 18 × 24 cm

36. The Alexander bridge across the Volga in Syzran. 1894 Negative 18 × 24 cm

Nizhny Novgorod 1912-1914

37. Views of the mountainous part of Nizhny Novgorod on the left Bank of the Oka. Negative 45 × 55 cm Piece.

38. View of the pontoon bridge and the mountainous part of Nizhny Novgorod. Negative 18 × 24 cm

39. A fistfight in front of the rooming house district.And. Bugrova. Negative 18 × 24 cm

40. Nizhny Novgorod "tramps". Negative 18 × 24 cm

41. In the operating room of the State Bank. 1913 Negative 18 × 24 cm

42. The area in front of the Romodanovsky railway station. Negative 18 × 24 cm

43. In the city court. Negative 18 × 24 cm

44. Nizhny Novgorod "tramps". Negative 18 × 24 cm

Biography Of Maxim Dmitriev

45. Maxim Dmitriev.

He was Born in 1858 in Tambov province. 1873 Comes to the disciples to the famous Moscow photographer Mikhail P. Nastyukov. 1874 Works in fotopoulou M. P. Nastyukov at the Nizhny Novgorod fair. 1877 Enters a Retoucher in the Studio of D. Labounkova. 1879 admitted to the Studio of a prominent photographer A. O. Karelina. 1881 Opens his own Studio. 1889 Takes part in the anniversary all-Russian photographic exhibition in Moscow. 1892 Gets a small gold medal of the Moscow exhibition, the gold medal of the Paris world photographic exhibition, the Grand Prix exhibition in Saint-Gilles, the Honorary diploma of the exhibition in Brussels. 1893 Publishes the famous album "a Lean year 1891-1892 in the Nizhny Novgorod region". 1894 Begins to create a monumental series of photos dedicated to the Volga. 1896 participates in the all-Russia industrial and art exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod. 1901-1904 he Takes the ruins of Macarius of St. Macarius monastery. 1903 Finalizing the "Volga collection." 1913 Records in a series of large-format photos of the arrival of Emperor Nicholas II in Nizhny Novgorod. 1929 Shop Dmitriev moved to the jurisdiction of the Commission to improve the lives of children. Photographer approved by the head of the art Department and pavilion photographer. 1937, From the archive Dmitrieva requisits 7000 negatives. Died 1948 in Gorky at the age of 90 years.