• Ferdinand Bureau (photographer)

Album of views of Moscow

ca. 1857-1860

Albumen silver prints

album: 29.8 x 45.7 x 1.3 cm

PH1982:0393:001-010

• exterior views

- Contemporary binding consists of green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering and trim on front cover, gold trim on spine and back cover and moiré endpapers.

stamped - on the album cover, in gold, c.: "VUES DE MOSCOU"; and on the album spine: "VUES / DE / MOSCOU" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and red ink, on page following endpaper, u.r.: "E. Abani [?] / 4 rue / Edmond About"

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture
• architecture temporaire
• militaire

Contient:

• PH1982:0393:001, Exterior view of the principal façade of Petrovski Palace (Peter's Palace), Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:002, View of Moskvoretski Bridge with the Kremlin in the background, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:003, View of the construction of a bridge, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:004, View of the Nicholas Tower (Nikol'skaya Tower) from within the Kremlin walls showing the Tsar Cannon in the foreground, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:005, View of the Kremlin, the Vodovzvodnaya Tower (Water-pumping Tower), and the Cathedral of the Archangel with the Belfry of Ivan the Great, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:006, View of the construction site of a temporary [?] bridge across the Yauza River, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:007, View of the principal façade of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:008, View of the Kremlin showing the First Nameless Tower and the Vospitatelnyi Dom (Foundling Home) in the background, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:009, View of Troitse-Sergeyevo Monastery showing Uspenskyi Cathedral and the bell tower, Zagorsk, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860
• PH1982:0393:010, View of Troitse-Sergeyevo Monastery showing the water tower (right), Zagorsk, Moscow, ca. 1857-1860