Photos of Interest from late 19th Century Russia

Russian School Teacher with pupils

Interior of wealthy Russian Drawing Room

Siberian Emigrants (above)
Group of upper-class Russians

Peasants in Steppe Country (above)

Near lake Hanka (above)

Lake Baikal (above)

Lakes in Amur region (above)

Kartoum Waterfall

Typical Russian Architectual Design on house front(above)

Rural Landscape (below) House with carridge (above)

The Famine of 1892 (above begging for bread from Royal guard below Royal Guard raids)

Empress Alexandra of the Russian Royal Family

The style of dress for an aristocratic woman of wealth.

Peasant Photos from "Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia"

Father plows while his son looks on. Plowing was work normally left to men. (Image Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Men and women working in front of barns for the storage of grain- Sergeevo, Riazan province

Well-dressed Peasant woman wearing a checkered panyova skirt beneath her broad apron

Peasant women from the Riazan province in typical dress for the region

Gathering of Peasant Women and Children (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Peasant Boys of the Rural Steppes- Voronezh Province, south of Riazan

The Seagull at the Moscow Art Theatre 1899

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(Right) Original Production Photo (Act IV)

(Right) Original Production Photos (top picture ActII bottom pictures Act III)

(Left) Original Prodcution photos (Act III)

(Above)Sketch from the Moscow Art Theatre's The Seagull Act I. (V. Simov)

(Right)Pictures from the original production (top picture Act I bottom pictures Act II)

(Above)Exchanging Impressions after reading The Seagull

(Above)Konstantin Stanislavsky as Trigorin in The Moscow Art Theatre's production of The Seagull

Here is Anton Chekhov (center) at the first reading of The Seagull to the cast at The Moscow Art Theatre

The actress who played Nina in the First Production of The Seagull at the Aleaxandrinski Theatre on October 17 1896 in St. Petersbug. This first production was entirely unsuccessful, and it wasn't until the newly- founded Moscow Arts Theatre relaunched the production in October 1898 that it received acclaim.