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Russie les quais de la Neva a St Petersbourg

from George Eastman Museum

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Fedor Stroganov said:

  Perhaps it's island of Vasiliy (Saint).

• Denis said:

  Surprising photo. I was once in this place!!! The temple has remained, but here houses, those that around, already others.

• J Neuberger said:

  This is a photograph of the south shore of Vasilievskii (Vasily) Island facing the Neva River, the “Lieutenant Shmidt Embankment.” This street was originally known as the Embankment of the Great Neva and from 1887-1918, as the Nikolaevskii (Nicholas) Embankment. After the Bolshevik revolution (October 1917), when landmarks were renamed in honor of revolutionary heroes, the embankment was named after one of the leaders of the mutinies that took place among the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet during the 1905 revolution (a subject made famous by Sergei Eisenstein’s most famous film “The Battleship ‘Potemkin’” www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ The photograph is dominated by a church and monastery with an interesting history. Starting in 1718 this site was the property of a number of different existing monasteries, intended for construction of an urban branch monastery, in Russian, a ‘podvor’e.’ The first structures were built here in the 1730s. In 1874 the site was transferred to the Kievan Monastery of the Caves, which commissioned the church and monastery you see in the photograph. In 1894 architects V.A. Kosiakov and B.K. Pravdzik won a competition to design a new church complex. The Church of the Assumption of Holy Mother, was dedicated in 1897. The monastery and church was built in a nationalist style designed to resemble medieval religious architecture. In 1935 the monastery was closed and the brothers were arrested. The icons were covered with plaster. The indoor ice-skating rink was built in 1956, the first to use artificial ice. In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, restoration of the building and its interior paintings began. More information (in Russian) can be found here walkspb.ru/zd/leit_shmidt27.html Unfortunately, virtually nothing is known about the photographer, Charles Chusseau-Flaviens. But the George Eastman House collection of his works is huge www.geh.org/fm/chusseau-flaviens/htmlsrc/countries.html

• BigBean said:

  Hi, this photo has featured in one of the many discussion threads in the Flickr Commons group, and we would love it if you would also add it to the group pool!

• victorious crowd said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Wir haben`s schwarz auf weiss ONLY THE BEST IN B&W ART♥ ♥, and we'd love to have this added to the group!