History of Russia: Photographic images of monuments of Suzdal and Vladimir implemented in early 1870 are presented at the exhibition in Suzdal

The gallery of the Suzdal Kremlin hosts the exhibition "Album of photographic images of monuments of the Old Russia art" from the State Hermitage collection. Suzdal and guests have a unique opportunity to get acquainted with photographic images of monuments of Suzdal and Vladimir, made in the early 1870s.

The author of the photographs is a master of the Moscow department of the painting workshop, honorary citizen, the photographer Mikhail Petrovich Nastyukov. Dates of life of Michael Nastyukova are not known. He was engaged in photography since 1858, he worked in Moscow, Kostroma, and Nizhny Novgorod. 

Mikhail Petrovich was a renowned portrait photographer. The collection of the State Vladimir-Suzdal museum stores 23 portraits created by photographer. However, Michael Nastyukov was not only a portraitist, he traveled with the camera to the shooting in Kiev, Smolensk, Vladimir, Uglich, Rybinsk, Vyazma, Kineshma Yurievets, Kostroma, Yaroslavl. M. P. Nastyukov shot panorama of the city unique in its architectural and artistic decisions of the local churches. Heritage of M. P. Nastyukov is invaluable for photographers, historians, ethnographers and architects. His photographic albums are in the collections of the Russian State Library, the State Literary Museum, the Russian Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, the Russian Academy of Arts. 

In 1873, heads the photographer went along with the head of Museum of Ancient Art at the Imperial Academy of Arts Vasily Alexandrovich Prokhorov "in various places Russia to remove the photos from the ancient monuments". The work began with "monuments of ancient Suzdal Principality, with buildings of Grand Prince Yuri Dolgoruky and Grand Duke Bogolyubsky of the XII century and his successors". The result was the publication in 1874 "Album of photographic types of monuments of ancient art". The exhibited images of monuments to Vladimir, Suzdal and its environs is a reproduction of the album, which is stored in the collection of the Central Scientific Library of the State Hermitage. The album is a rarity and gives us perhaps the most accurate representation of the shape of the architectural monuments of Vladimir-Suzdal land the second half of the XIX century.

The exhibition is opened until August 16.