Title

Gold-Mining Worker. A Spirtonos, or Alcohol Smuggler, Imprisioned for Selling Alcohol..., 1904. Creator: Boris Vasilievich Smirnov.

Caption

Gold-Mining Worker. A Spirtonos, or Alcohol Smuggler, Imprisioned for Selling Alcohol at the Mines, 1904. Boris Vasilievich Smirnov (1881-1954) was a Russian artist who in 1904 traveled by prisoner transport from western Russia across Siberia. Along the way he created a series of drawings and watercolors of the people and places he encountered. Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A06_292

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Rights managed

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56,1Mb (5,3Mb) / 13,2in x 16,5in / 3954 x 4959 (300dpi)

Keywords

forest exterior outdoors building people library sitting arts country remote art museum color siberian hut cabin location century drawing secluded Russia Russian concept seated one person log cabin Siberia watercolour Library of Congress region Colour 1900s 20th century TGN outside pencil drawing building exterior watercolour pencil landscape taiga Krasnoyarsk Congressional Library drawing Heritage Art Watercolour and pencil still image Meeting of Frontiers Yenisey Novosibirsk State Museum eco-region Boris Vasilievich Smirnov Smirnov Boris Vasilievich Boris Smirnov