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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

willigula: WWI poster by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, Russian Empire A 1914 poster prepared for a charity clothing drive sponsored by the All-Russian Land Union by an important Russian artist and stage designer. Korovin often worked in the manner of Impressionists, but for this poster, he turns for inspiration to the archetypal image from Russian antiquity, that of Dmitri Donskoi, the first Russian national hero figure. The viewer is left with the feeling that ignoring the drive is really not an option, and that participation is a civic duty of every citizen. A highly desirable, often reproduced poster (see e.g., Baburina, Russian Posters of WWI).

willigula:

WWI poster by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, Russian Empire

A 1914 poster prepared for a charity clothing drive sponsored by the All-Russian Land Union by an important Russian artist and stage designer. Korovin often worked in the manner of Impressionists, but for this poster, he turns for inspiration to the archetypal image from Russian antiquity, that of Dmitri Donskoi, the first Russian national hero figure. The viewer is left with the feeling that ignoring the drive is really not an option, and that participation is a civic duty of every citizen. A highly desirable, often reproduced poster (see e.g., Baburina, Russian Posters of WWI).

oldsamovar:

Rarity postcards “Provinces of the Russian Empire”, 1856

Pskov Governorate; Saint Petersburg Governorate; Smolensk Governorate; Perm Governorate (native one).

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jdpeoplearestrange:

Prokudin-Gorskii took these photos amongst others between 1909-1912 in his travels across the Russian Empire, using a special method by taking a photo three times, each time with an individual Red, Green and Blue filter on a glass plate. Put together, he captured these fascinating images of a seemingly distant empire.

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zolotoivek: Issue five of the communist periodical ‘The Red Banner’, 1906.

zolotoivek:

Issue five of the communist periodical ‘The Red Banner’, 1906.

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dreigroschenoper: I’m going to start scanning pictures from one of my favourite books, The Soviet Image. I bought it for five dollars and it is full of fantastic photos.  Moscow Art Theatre The Moscow Art Theatre is generally considered the first modern theatre. Cofounded in 1897 by the director Konstantin Stanislavsky, the theatre moved away from the highly stylised, melodramatic approach of the nineteenth century toward a more realistic method of acting and production. Its first great success was its 1898 staging of Anton Checkhov’s play The Seagull. In this 1899 photo, Checkhov looks directly into the camera, surrounded by the theatre ensemble. Stanislavsky (fourth from the left in the back row) is busily chatting up the ladies.

dreigroschenoper:

I’m going to start scanning pictures from one of my favourite books, The Soviet Image. I bought it for five dollars and it is full of fantastic photos. 

Moscow Art Theatre

The Moscow Art Theatre is generally considered the first modern theatre. Cofounded in 1897 by the director Konstantin Stanislavsky, the theatre moved away from the highly stylised, melodramatic approach of the nineteenth century toward a more realistic method of acting and production. Its first great success was its 1898 staging of Anton Checkhov’s play The Seagull. In this 1899 photo, Checkhov looks directly into the camera, surrounded by the theatre ensemble. Stanislavsky (fourth from the left in the back row) is busily chatting up the ladies.

radicaltraditionalism:

House of Romanov from Nicholas I onwards.

Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Tauric Chersonesos, Tsar of Georgia, Lord of Pskov, and Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Semigalia, Samogitia, Belostok, Karelia, Tver, Yugra, Perm, Vyatka, Bulgaria and other territories; Lord and Grand Duke of Nizhni Novgorod, Sovereign of Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Beloozero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislavl, and all northern territories; Sovereign of Iveria, Kartalinia, and the Kabardinian lands and Armenian territories - hereditary Lord and Ruler of the Circassians and Mountain Princes and others; Lord of Turkestan, Heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig–Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, Oldenburg, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth. 

Official titles.

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