Russia in Photographs at the Turn of the 19th and the 20th Century

In my thesis I intend to analyse developement of russian documentary photography in years 1839-1917, in other words in period since the birth of photography to the downfall of tsarism. We may divide documentary photography into few categories - photography of landscape, architecture, objects, events and people. This general division helps to outline the worldwide develpement, which will be introduction to the main theme of this thesis. I will analyse russian documentary photography in contexts of its birth, contributions of foreigners who worked in Russia, photographical societis, organization of technological, scientific and photographical exhibitions and national (Volga river) and imperialist (Central Asia) symbols of the Russian Empire. I will analyse works of photographs Maxim Petrovitch Dmitriev and Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky, who dedicated their lifes to photograph Russia, in detail