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Twilight of the Romanovs

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Description for Twilight of the Romanovs Hardcover. Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt. Num Pages: 248 pages, 360 illustrations, 114 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 295 x 251 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1740.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500516683
SKU
V9780500516683
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About Philipp Blom
Among Philipp Blom’s other books are To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting, Encyclopédie, The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900–1914 and A Wicked Company. Veronica Buckley has contributed to numerous essay anthologies, travel books and The Times. She is the author of Queen Christina: The Restless Life of a European ... Read more

Reviews for Twilight of the Romanovs
'A rare treat to be able to see century-old images in colour … everyone should find something of interest' - Amateur Photographer 'I have never seen a more beautiful book on the tragic dynasty of the Romanovs and the Imperial Russia they ruled over … this book is the nearest thing we have to a time machine to this period ... Read more

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