Believe it or not, but for the last Russian Tsar’s coronation – the day when he got into power- they have decorated the whole Moscow’s city Kremlin in electric bulbs, just like people decorate their houses now for the Christmas. Seeing this photos of the Kremlin with all the holiday lights on in the night it’s really hard to believe that they were made as far back as 1896 – almost 120 years ago! Photos are inside.
I think that for the peasants that got a chance to visit Moscow at this time seeing something like this at night, with full lights on was something close to seeing a live alien warship for a contemporary person, compared by the degree of delight one can get by simply seeing things.
Even twenty something years later, when Lenin took power, it said to be only thirty percent of Moscow households that had electric bulbs. So such abundance of lights were true exotics at the time.
However Tsar’s Russia authorities tried to attract world-class engineers to develop the electrification projects. Like the baron von Siemens whose company well survived till our times, he got a Russian nationality and moved to Russia.
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