Moscow before the revolution

20 juni 2011

When horse racing journalist and amateur photographer Andrew Murray Howe II had the chance to travel to Russia in the early twentieth century, he took his Graflex camera along. He ended up with more than four hundred photographs of street life in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Some of these photos were recently posted on Flickr by Howe's grandson Andrew Murray V. Howe. The images offer a unique insight into pre-revolutionary Russia and the First World War. The Russians responded enthusiastically to the pictures. 

Photo: young street vendors in Moscow (1909). According to the photographer’s notes, the people asked whether they could be portrayed in the picture.