Title

Gilyak merchant, 1865-1871. Creator: VV Lanin.

Caption

Gilyak merchant, 1865-1871. This album contains 154 photographs taken in the second half of the 1860s and 1870s by a local photographer from the Far East, V. V. Lanin. The merchant V. P. Myl'nikov presented it as a gift to the Imperial Public Library of St. Petersburg upon his return from the Amur region. The photographs represent a variety of subjects, including municipal scenes of Blagoveshchensk, Nikolaevsk-na-Amure, and Vladivostok; images of native life and culture, views of nature, and commerce along the Amur, Ussuri, and Suifun Rivers.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A02_433

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

55,2Mb (2,2Mb) / 13,0in x 16,5in / 3892 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

standing people male boy boys child children library man men historical family father country fatherhood parent science far east guy teenage teenager teenagers clothes color photography teens dress ethnic native location century shorts Russia Russian son photograph clothing position concept photo fighter dad bare-chested APPAREL B&W three people bare chested Library of Congress ethnology barechested Side By Side Colour semi-naked semi-nude Family Group 19th century black & white black and white B W semi-dress white and black 1860s anthropology nineteenth century history historic ethnography three generational family indigenous photograph portrait far eastern national library of russia semi dress Congressional Library Heritage Art 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing still image Meeting of Frontiers Gilyak Nivkh VV Lanin Lanin VV V. V. Lanin