Russian Expansionist Propaganda Miniature Views of Crimea

by Plates from Military Almanacs, 1860s, Mounted in a French Carte de Visite Album at the Height of the CDV Collecting Craze
Thirty-one engravings, all clipped from issues of Памятная книжка (Pamaiatnaia knizhka), an annual almanac of military, naval, imperial court and civil officials, published in Saint Petersburg by Военной Типографий (The Military Press). Each annual contained six to ten plates, mostly of places in the empire outside of Russia proper, reflecting contemporary Russian expansionism. During the period of this album, all the engravings in the almanacs were executed by English engravers whose work appears in English view books. All were based on paintings by prominent "Russian artists". This collection, mounted in an album with a French patent, was assembled (truncated)
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