The Grand Kremlin Palace in 1875

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2015 · Travel & Events

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Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Большой Императорский Кремлевский дворец В Москве
Фотографии Ивана Григорьевича Дьяговченко
1875

Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs
The Imperial Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow
Photographs by Ivan G. Dyagovchenko
1875

Here is an album of photographs of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow taken in 1875 by the Russian merchant and photographer Ivan G. Dyagovchenko.
Dyagovchenko was born in the town of Sergiev Posad in 1835. In 1863 he traveled to Moscow with the aim of setting up a photographic business and by 1867 he opened a photographic studio "New Light Painting I. Dyagovchenko." He made his name as a portrait photographer and in the summer of 1872 he was an exhibitor at the Polytechnique exhibition in Moscow and was awarded the Grand Gold Medal for "photographic views" …..
As a result of this prize, Dyagovchenko became a much sort after photographer and came to the notice of His Imperial Highness the Tsarevich. Through his patronage he gained the commission to photograph the Grand Kremlin Palace, which I now present -

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