Produkin-Gorskii: The Tsar's Russia - in colour

[Egan]

Originally Posted by geetrue

Egan, you make subsim worth reading

Well, thank you!

I think I originally stumbled on these when I was looking for some Victorian Memento Mori one day. I found a huge bunch of them but, after about half a dozen, I found that I couldn't look at any more. They were just heartbreaking.

Actually, thinking about it, I also came across a site that had photographic portraits of veterans of the American War of Independence. They were all very old men, and they were taken in the mid 19th century.

But these are special, there is something about the colour than just reduces that remoteness in time and history and culture.

Somewhat fitting for the day Eve Arnold died.