World history: The exhibition of photographs from the archive of the Society of Russian veterans of the Great War, San Francisco, presented in Moscow

Prior to October 31, 2013 the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of the Russian Abroad (Moscow) invites you to an exhibition of photo engravings of the Society of Russian veterans of the Great War in San Francisco dedicated to the 1150th anniversary of Russian statehood.

The exhibition features portraits of statesmen of the Russian edition from the collection “Portrait Gallery of Russian leaders” by lithographer Alexander Ernestovich Munster.

Alexander Ernestovich Munster (1824-1908) is the Saint-Petersburg lithographer, publisher. The “Portrait Gallery” is one of the largest and most historically significant works by the lithographer. It combined more than 200 portraits and biographies of Russian leaders, in different fields and at different times of glory to Russia. The first is a gallery of portraits of 100 government officials, it was released in 1865 “with the deepest reverence” was presented to Emperor Alexander II.

These lithographs were kept in the library of the Society of Russian veterans of the Great War in San Francisco, solemnly granted to the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of the Russian Abroad in 2009.