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A portrait of Tsarist Russia ; unknown photographers from the soviet Archives

by Y. Barchatova

A collection of 350 black-and-white, pre-revolutionary Russian photographs, representing the first images from the country's government archives to be released in the West.

Accession 31198 ISBN 0394580311 Publisher Pantheon
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