Russian links

Middle-class Russ­ian home inte­ri­ors of the 19^th and early 20^th centuries:

• Some of the best: Tol­stoy 1, Tol­stoy 2, and Tol­stoy 3; Tol­stoy;
• Tol­stoy
• Tol­stoy
• Dos­to­evsky
• Chekov
• Bakhrushin
• Paster­nak
• Chicherin
• Grinevskaja

The Russ­ian Muse­ums web site attempts to list every museum in Rus­sia. Most links have a cou­ple pic­tures of the museum. Although the pho­tos are small, there are still a good num­ber of inte­rior shots that I’ve found nowhere else. The best way to find them is to look at the muse­ums with the term “home” or “house” in the name.

Nicholas II study in Alexander’s Palace:

• Web­shots: exten­sive cur­rent photos
• Time Machine: his­tor­i­cal photos

Prokudin-Gorskii pic­tures. Almost all are out­side, but there are a few inte­rior clues. In par­tic­u­lar, he took sev­eral pix of objects which aren’t as impor­tant to us, but they show fur­ni­ture and inte­ri­ors that are. Why this guy took 2500 pic­tures of build­ings but never thought to take a pic inside any­thing but a church or fac­tory is a mys­tery to me:

• patio
• have no idea
• library desk (poor pic)
• room
• room
• couch & background
• room
• table
• back­ground doors & wall
• inte­rior
• table
• exte­rior, fur­ni­ture, decorative
• table
• table
• not sure. Church stor­age cabinet
• stor­age room
• store­house
• patio

Faberge resources:

• Wart­ski: in par­tic­u­lar, note the archives sec­tion. Numer­ous high-quality pho­tos includ­ing pho­tos of the backs of objects.
• Faberge research center
• egg infor­ma­tion prob­a­bly the most com­plete over­all info on the web
• Forbes Faberge-egg Instructa­bles con­test: I’d love to work this story into one of the study activities
• A lit­tle his­tory I haven’t found elsewhere