What I’ve read about this series of images is that a group of European tourists has travelled to Russia in early mid 19th century and to better memorize the things they’ve seen they decided to make those pictures. Inside you’ll find exactly what they’ve seen, but even already looking on the first picture which seems like a group of shepherds who graze a herd of bears inside of the Russian city (and bears seem like they pretty obedient to those guys) this photos might have at least a bit of exaggeration. Or it was really that cool at the times:
This one is called the Post Office head. I guess the one in the flat hat is the chief as the one on the right look like a slave peasant with a fishing rod (they abolished slave peasants only in 1861!). Probably he can’t read and the post chief reads some bad news for them.
“Giant sturgeon pulled out of the Volga river”. Ok yes sturgeons were pretty common at times but always were considered to be a deli food. The sturgeon caviar and meats itself. Looks like if its not again exaggerated the fish was big at times. Also looks like a fisherman is sitting inside a boat and boat arrived exactly to the house, so they probably had the houses built right on the water at that time (not allowed now).
“Novgorod city, the market”. Well just the market though pretty crowded and looks like they have some sort of a show in the middle on something that looks like a stage.
“Solovki monastery as seen from the sea”. We had this place a few times. For example you can see it here.
Moscow. Self-explanatory, actually its a Moscow Kremlin which didn’t change much since then, thought you can see they had some sort of eagles or crosses on top of the towers, instead of the red ruby stars that were installed in Soviet times. This link shows you more on the actual replacement operation.
Russian forest. Pretty picturesque, isn’t it?
“Praying before the icons”. People seem to be very believers at least on this image.
“Siberia, deer sledge”. Yes just a deer sledge. This striped column on the left was used in Russia to measure distances and was called “verst”.
Ok here we go again. A tough guy vs bears. It’s called “Hunter fights a bear” but see how bad he is – his rifle is on the ground and he is just with bare knife. Looks like even the bear is terrified. People probably have been way tougher back then!
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