Czarist Russia in color (1905–1915)

Post by viach » Wed, Aug 06, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

bellerocky wrote: post #19

Russia's Tzars really doomed Russia for the last hundred years + the future when they decided to wait a century or more too long to emancipate their serfs. Russians have never had a chance to experience freedom, just corruption and authoritarianism because their nobles couldn't do the right thing when almost everywhere else in Europe there was enlightenment among the higher classes. Russia also never had a French rev…

Post by tmp1234519029 » Wed, Aug 06, 2014, 5:18 PM UTC

koberstein wrote: post #18

lmm wrote: post #8

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I wouldn't say that. The clothes look uncomfortable, there are mud tracks rather than road, the whole city is two- or even one-story buildings (which implies you'd be living without any subcultural clubs in walking distance - hope you enjoy the same things everyone else does). Even the melons the guy is selling are clearly in much worse condition than modern supermarket produce. And look at how many people it takes j…

Yeah I don't know how people managed to live happy lives with all those mud tracks and sub-par melons.

Post by jobu » Wed, Aug 06, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

balabaster wrote: post #5

What's most awesome about these pictures, is that looking many of them, you could easily imagine they were taken today. It's astonishing that the picture of modern life we see all around us, we build up this idea in our heads that we've come so far in the past hundred or so years, but in reality, much of the world - even in the West, hasn't come that far at all.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 06, 2014, 7:13 PM UTC

tmp1234519029 wrote: post #22

bane wrote: post #7

Here's a bit on the photographer and the specific technique used to capture these photos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Photogr... When I was younger, in the early 90s, I had a chance to be on one of the earliest U.S.-Russian student exchanges following the fall of the Soviet Union. I spent a summer there, mostly in the Urals, but a bit East of those mountains as well, sometimes out in open step…

From my stay and travels in Russia I can confirm that Russian hospitality is incredible. Plus they all have cats.

Post by bellerocky » Thu, Aug 07, 2014, 1:21 AM UTC

viach wrote: post #21

bellerocky wrote: post #19

Russia's Tzars really doomed Russia for the last hundred years + the future when they decided to wait a century or more too long to emancipate their serfs. Russians have never had a chance to experience freedom, just corruption and authoritarianism because their nobles couldn't do the right thing when almost everywhere else in Europe there was enlightenment among the higher classes. Russia also never had a French rev…

You forgot about the Decembrist revolt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt