Moscow c.1867
Albumen print | 32.7 x 38.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2933804
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Photograph of Moscow taken from a high vantage point. In the foreground there is a fence and a number of residential buildings. Behind the buildings the Moskva River bends around to the left, with boats moored along its edges. In the distance are the palaces and churches of the Kremlin. St Basil's Cathedral, with its distinctive onion domes, can be seen to the right of the Kremlin. On the same album page is also mounted the tenth page of Montagu's diary.
This photograph is from an album compiled by Captain Oliver Montagu which contains photographs, newspaper cuttings, ephemera and a diary account by Montagu of the visit to Russia by the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, in 1874. Albert Edward and Alexandra travelled to Russia to attend the wedding of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (and later Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha) to Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, the daughter of Tsar Alexander II. Captain Montagu was a member of the Prince and Princess of Wales's suite.Provenance
Acquired by King Edward VII when Prince of Wales
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
32.7 x 38.8 cm (image)
33.7 x 48.7 cm (page dimensions)
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