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Twilight of the Romanovs : A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia, Hardback Book

Twilight of the Romanovs : A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia Hardback

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Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule.

They include many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt.

We discover a world of exceptional diversity, seemingly timeless, almost archaic, marked by persistent poverty, yet also abundantly rich and often surprisingly modern.

These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world.

The Russian Empire was soon to be destroyed, and, in the ensuing blood-soaked decades, rendered unrecognizable.

Yet these images reveal a surprising continuity: despite the subsequent cataclysm, faces, postures, buildings and landscapes still resonate with those who see them a century and more later.

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