Cities of the world

28 587 units. The collection of photographs of the cities of the world is the unique collection of West-European photography of 1850s - 1900-ies, which presents the views of the cities of Italy, Austria, Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain made by such masters, as Alfredo Noack, Giacomo Broggi, Giorgio Sommer, brothers Nerden, Axel Lindahl, Ludwig Hardtmut, Ramon Almela, Francis Fritt and many ... ↓ others. In the collection there are views of Prague and Warsaw, as well as New York and Chicago. The collection of townscapes and genre pictures of Russia and near abroad in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries forms not a smaller part of the storage. Such cities as Moscow, Kiev, Kazan, Minsk, Ekaterinburg, Odessa, Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk, Astrakhan, Yalta, Sevastopol, Pyatigorsk, Sochi and many others are widely represented. Among the photographers whose works form this part of the collection it is worth mentioning M. P. Nastyukov and I. F. Barshchevsky, showing the front face of Moscow in XIX century; A. O. Karelin and W. A. Carrick — the first masters of Russian genre pictures; F. Gadaev, A. Engel, F. Ordan, I. Lange — authors of the classic views of Caucasus; F. Orlov, A. Zimmermann, I. Semyonov, Otto Renard, V. Sokornov, S. Rainish, without whom it is impossible to imagine the Crimean photo. Especially noteworthy is photographer Dmitry Yermakov — there are his photos with views of Caucasus and the Turkish album. The photos of Middle and Far East: Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Japan, China, Ceylon are well represented. The department also houses unique documentary photographs of the period of the First World War, acquired by the Museum within N. S. Tagrin’s collection. ↑

16 404 units. In addition to the collection of photographs the department contains more than 16000 photomechanical prints — landscapes, genre scenes and portraits and printed albums of the late 1870-ies-1960-ies. This collection is devoted to the countries of Western and Eastern Europe, USA and East Asian regions and widely presents not only cities, but also life and culture of different ... ↓ countries and peoples. Among the phototypists, whose works are in the department, there are such names as Shevoyon and Dufu, W. I. Stein, M. Schroeder, M. Gubler, A. Salon. The publishing houses, involved in the development and production of photomechanical prints, such as "Scherer, Nabgolts and Co", "Lowman and Hanford", "Photochrom Zürich" (later "Photoglob Zürich AG), publishing house of Ernst Wasmuth and many others are presented in the department . Among the techniques, used in this collection, phototypes and relief prints, semitone dominate . But there are also more rare techniques such as photogravure, which is not inferior to photo in quality of reproduction of details and light-shadowed images, as well as photochromolithography, better known as photochrom. With this technique the color photography has begun in the XIX century. ↑