World history: Unique shots of the First World War presented at the exhibition in Martial Chamber

August 4, 2015 in the Museum-Reserve “Tsarskoye Selo” was opened the Museum “Russia during the Great Patriotic War”. Exactly one year, the Martial Chamber hosts the photo exhibition “The heroes of yesteryear do not have names…”. About a hundred of pictures of the First World War arrived in Tsarskoye Selo from Yakutsk.

The exposition included photographs of a military doctor Konstantin Anatolievich Dobrokhotov. The exhibited photos of the author were made while serving in the Russian Imperial Army in 1915-1916. They depicted everyday war officers and soldiers of their daily lives. As an amateur photographer Konstantin Dobrokhotov made not only traditional group photos and filmed what seemed to him interesting, so images have managed to convey the spirit of wartime. The author does not set a goal to show the horrors of war that he had seen and experienced. Important in his photographs are the people, their faces and eyes.

In Soviet times, to keep the documents of the First World War was not safe, so Konstantin Dobrokhotov destroyed virtually the entire archive, except for negatives. Author handed them to his grandson - Vladimir Dobrokhotov. Over 60 years, he - a famous Yakut photojournalist - kept the negatives and in 2014 by the centenary anniversary of the First World War published and first presented pictures at the exhibition in Yakutsk.

The exhibition will run until October 31.