Maybe its not even Moscow.
Maybe its just a ghost city / fake city.
I don't know the source of those pictures
I traced the first one through Google images and came to
this website.
Martin Scherer shot the first photographic panorama of Moscow, published in 1867 and which became one of the best documentary panoramas of the city.
(Translated from Google)
Who is Martin Scherer? Sounds Germanic.
In the same 1867, the company “Scherer, Nabgolts, the former A. Bergner” was sold to a native of Kurland, a talented photographer Albert Ivanovich May, on a rental basis, which allowed her to retain her previous merits. Since that time, it has become known as “Scherer, Nabgolts and Co.”
(Again, Google translate)
Many talented photographers.
Couldn't find anything on Martin Scherer.
In search of the company I found
this website.
A collection of photographs of buildings, churches, streets, and localities—detailed Moscow circular panorama: the photographs were taken by the Scherer and Nabgolts company from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 1867 and published in 16 lithographic plates in 1886 by the Kushner and K° typolithography.
I also found a
book on amazon related to these photos.
In 1880-ies. in the cultural life of Moscow was a significant event - were published in four editions of the "Moscow. Cathedrals, churches and monasteries ", containing photographs of all Moscow churches. The author and initiator of the collection was the famous Moscow businessman, social activist, ethnographer, philanthropist and benefactor Nikolai Naidenov. Presented in this photo album - priceless relics of the past. The purpose of publishing "in the preservation of the memory of the future on the existing kinds of churches in Moscow." By order Naydenova was organized large-scale expensive photographing all the surviving cathedrals, churches and monasteries of Moscow. Shoot it made better by the time Moscow company "Scherer.
In my search for Nikolai,
I came here.
Many were originally part of Romanov palace libraries nationalized by the Soviet government and sold abroad for hard currency.
Hee-Gwone Yoo."Holdings of rare photographs and plate books at the Slavic and Baltic Division of The New York Public Library." Rosia yongu (Russian Studies), vol. 12, no. 1 (2002): [323]-332.
(probably worth investigating)
The website also says this:
- 1834: Creator Born
- 1886: Created
- 1905: Creator Died
- 2013: Digitized
The website talks about
Naidenov, N. A. (Nikolai Aleksandrovich) (1834-1905)
He could be Nikolai Naidenov.
Couldn't find anything on Albert Ivanovich May.
